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Verdurin /vəʁdyrɛ̃/ is a project space in East London hosted by Pierre d’Alancaisez and programmed with friends.
Verdurin presents an idiosyncratic mix of events, courses, and exhibitions addressing urgent cultural, political, and philosophical questions through visual culture.
Verdurin is also a concept store and publisher, providing the essentials an aesthete will need to survive cultural doomsday: daring literature, artefacts deserving of perdurance, and artisanal provisions.
d’Alancaisez was first inspired to marshal an audience to discuss politics, art, and ideas critically in response to the failure of institutions and the breakdown in the cultural order following the pandemic.
The name Verdurin is borrowed from Proust’s literary character Mme Verdurin who in À la recherche du temps perdu hosts a literary salon. Verdurin today carries on her spirit of conviviality and mutual edification.
We are happy to receive pitches and ideas for events, performances, launches, screenings, talks relating to art, culture, politics, and philosophy.
Team
Pierre d’Alancaisez
Pierre d’Alancaisez is a curator and critic, and the founder of Verdurin.
Amir Naaman
Amir Naaman is a novelist and a personal trainer. He is involved in Verdurin publishing and events.
Daniel Neill
Daniel is a writer, and protégé at Verdurin.
Artists, contributors, guests
Ran Heilbrunn
Ran Heilbrunn is a writer and scholar whose work focuses on technology, political theory, and current affairs.
Victoria Comstock-Kershaw
Victoria Comstock-Kershaw is an arts journalist, reviewer, and God’s favourite critic.
Aaron Moulton
Aaron Moulton is a curator and anthropologist. His research in ‘The Influencing Machine’ charted the impact of the NGO movement on the visual culture of Eastern Europe in the 1990s.
Daniel Howard James
Daniel James is an independent researcher working on a conspiracy-free theory of ‘consumer-communism’.
Helen Rollins
Helen Rollins is a writer and filmmaker interested in the intersection between art and philosophy.
Glenn Belverio
Glenn Belverio is a video artist known for ‘Glennda and Friends’, a post-queer talk show.
Oliver Davis
Oliver Davis is Professor of French at University College Cork and co-author of Hatred of Sex.
Tim Abrahams
Tim Abrahams is an architecture critic, publisher at Machine Books, and host of the Superurbanism podcast.
John-Robin Bold
John-Robin Bold is an artist and composer who works within the fields of experimental electronic music, internet art, and video art.
Daniel Corrick
Daniel Corrick is a literary historian specialising in the Decadent movement and evolution of supernatural fiction.
George Hoare
George Hoare is a political theorist, podcaster, and author.
Roger Lancaster
Roger Lancaster is a professor of anthropology and cultural studies at George Mason University.
Bertie Marshall
Bertie Marshall is a writer and performer of plays, poems, and fiction.
Daniel Hadas
Daniel Hadas specializes in early Christian literature, medieval Latin, and the study of manuscripts.
J.F. Martel
J.F. Martel is a writer and lecturer on art, culture, and philosophy, and the the author of ‘Reclaiming Art in the Age of Artifice’.
Dougal Verinder Gedge
Dougal Gedge’s practice reflects a reality experienced compulsively online.
Jack Jacobs
Jack Jacobs is an actor and audiobook narrator.
Charles Lambert
Charles Lambert is a designer and electronic musician.
Ofri Ilany
Dr. Ofri Ilany is a historian, journalist, and literary critic.
David Moulton
David Moulton is a writer and independent researcher.
Sarah Stein Lubrano
Sarah Stein Lubrano is the author of ‘Don’t Talk About Politics’ and was previously head of content at The School of Life.