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
Ben Cobley
Ben Cobley is a writer and journalist.
Nicholas Blincoe
Nicholas Blincoe is a novelist, screenwriter, and historian.
Alfie Bown
Alfie Bown is the editor of Sublation Magazine, founder of Everyday Analysis, and a lecturer in digital media.
Noah Perez
Noah Perez is a writer from London and an editor at The Toe Rag.
Jane Cooper
Jane Cooper researches the poetic theory of the sublime.
Liam Blackford
Liam Blackford is an Australian writer and poet.
Rose Lyddon
Rose Lyddon writes about history, theology, and adventures.
Ewan Morrison
Ewan Morrison is an award-winning novelist, screenwriter, and essayist.
Georg Kurz
Georg Kurz is a German politician associated with the Die Linke.
John Gillam
John Gillam is the founder of Thinking Class, an inquiry intothe political, cultural, and civilisational questions shaping England, Britain, and the West.
David McKerracher
David is the founder and organisers of Theory Underground.
Yotam Feldman
Yotam Feldmam is a writer, filmmaker, and editor and a (self) trained metaphysical detective.
Isobel McCrum
Isobel McCrum is an AI systems architect.
Karin Ferrari
Karin Ferrari is an artist exploring ‘trash mysticism’.
Simon Fanshawe
Simon Fanshawe OBE is a broadcaster, writer, and activist. He was one of the founders of the LGBT charity Stonewall.
Ann Snelgrove-McKerracher
Ann is a co-instructor at Theory Underground. She is interested in the question of the ‘Good Life’.
Dougal Verinder Gedge
Dougal Gedge’s practice reflects a reality experienced compulsively online.
Rupert Read
Philosopher Rupert Read is Co-Director of the Climate Majority Project.
Sohrab Ahmari
Ahmari is the US editor of UnHerd and the author of Tyranny, Inc.
Jacob Siegel
Jacob Siegel is writer and a contributing editor at Tablet.
Angie Speaks
Angie Speaks is the author of Late Stage Babylon, host of Depth Diaries, and contributor to Newsweek and Spiked.
