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
Yotam Feldman
Yotam Feldmam is a writer, filmmaker, and editor and a (self) trained metaphysical detective.
Alison Brady
Alison Brady is a philosopher of education investigating writing pedagogy in the age of AI.
Anna Sebastian
Anna Sebastian’s painting practice follows alternative and imagined realities, myth, history, and religion.
Elena Louisa Lange
Elena Lange is a philosopher, Japanologist, writer, former musician, and former assistant professor. She is the editor of Café Américain.
Kit Ramsay
Kit Ramsay is a film and festival programmer, and perennial audience member on the scene.
Abbie Lucas
Abbie Lucas is a filmmaker, theatre director, and co-host of Art of Darkness.
Bertie Marshall
Bertie Marshall is a writer and performer of plays, poems, and fiction.
Charles Lambert
Charles Lambert is a designer and electronic musician.
Jack Hunter
Jack Hunter is an anthropologist exploring the borderlands of consciousness, religion, ecology, and the paranormal.
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.
Ronan McCrea
Ronan McCrea is the author of The End of the Gay Rights Revolution, an academic, and columnist.
Roger Lancaster
Roger Lancaster is a professor of anthropology and cultural studies at George Mason University.
Ed McKeon
Ed is a music programmer who explores the aesthetic implications of shifts in understanding of history.
Oliver Davis
Oliver Davis is Professor of French at University College Cork and co-author of Hatred of Sex.
David McKerracher
David is the founder and organisers of Theory Underground.
David Moulton
David Moulton is a writer and independent researcher.
Jacob Siegel
Jacob Siegel is writer and a contributing editor at Tablet.
Kit Wilson
Kit Wilson is a writer and musician in London.
Rupert Read
Philosopher Rupert Read is Co-Director of the Climate Majority Project.
Alexander Raubo
Alexander Raubo is a critic and philosopher writing about internet art, modernism, America, technology, and Christianity.
