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.
Nina Power
Nina Power is a philosopher and critic.
Daniel Neill
Daniel is a writer, and protégé at Verdurin.
Travis Jeppesen
Travis Jeppesen is the author of numerous books and the creator of object-oriented writing.
Emma Bielecki
Emma Bielecki is a lecturer, writer, and researcher. She splits her time between London and nineteenth-century Paris.
Lola Salem
Lola Salem is a researcher and cultural strategist.
Artists, contributors, guests
Travis Jeppesen
Travis Jeppesen is the author of numerous books and the creator of object-oriented writing.
Neema Parvini
Neema Parvini is the author of ten books, including The Populist Delusion, The Prophets of Doom, and Applied Elite Theory. His YouTube channel, Academic Agent, has received over 37 million views.
Thaïs Lenkiewicz
Thaïs Lenkiewicz collages science fiction, religion, conspiracy theories, game shows, and prehistory.
Kristin Milward
Kristin Milward is an actress known for her work on the stage.
Jack Jacobs
Jack Jacobs is an actor and audiobook narrator.
George Hoare
George Hoare is a political theorist, podcaster, and author.
Jack Hunter
Jack Hunter is an anthropologist exploring the borderlands of consciousness, religion, ecology, and the paranormal.
Bertie Marshall
Bertie Marshall is a writer and performer of plays, poems, and fiction.
Oliver Bennett
Oliver Bennett is a writer, actor, and director and co-founder of The Base Creates.
Charles Lambert
Charles Lambert is a designer and electronic musician.
Victoria Comstock-Kershaw
Victoria Comstock-Kershaw is an arts journalist, reviewer, and God’s favourite critic.
Aimee Armstrong
Aimee Armstrong’s work portrays modern relationships in a post-internet, post-woke, post-infographic world.
Nicholas Blincoe
Nicholas Blincoe is a novelist, screenwriter, and historian.
Carl Abrahamsson
Carl Abrahamsson is a Swedish author writing on occulture and magico-anthropology.
Suzanne Newcombe
Suzanne Newcombe is a senior lecturer in Religious Studies at the Open University and honorary director of Inform.
Stephen Adubato
Stephen Adubato is a writer and host of Cracks in Postmodernity.
Hamilton Morrin
Hamilton Morrin is a neuropsychiatrist researching brain-computer interface technology and human-AI interactions.
Philip Cunliffe
Philip Cunliffe is Associate Professor in International Relations at UCL, co-founder of Bungacast, and author of multiple books on international politics and security.
Bryce Nance
Bryce Nance always wanted to go to college. Not for a degree or career, but to be “a man of letters”.
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.
Vanity von Glow
Internationally ignored superstar Vanity von Glow is a live performance tour de force.
