Ed McKeon


Ed McKeon is a researcher, lecturer, and curatorial producer of experimental practices. He has collaborated with artists from Pauline Oliveros to Heiner Goebbels, Elliott Sharp to Jennifer Walshe, and Kuljit Bhamra to Brian Eno.

Ed is an experienced music programmer, producer and commissioner, presenting over 200 events and commissioning over 100 works and new collaborations in the last 19 years across the range of new music.

His PhD examined the implications of curatorial theory and practice in separating out music from the gallery arts, and his book Heiner Goebbels and Curatorial -Composing After Cage was published by Cambridge University Press in 2022.

His current research considers the musical implications of recent shifts in understanding history and contemporaneity.


  • 9/11 Watch Party

    11 September 2024

    Join Verdurin for the as-seen-on-TV event of the year and experience again the fear, tears, and paranoia of the live news channel analysis and raw unedited footage of the disaster. 

  • Cells and Salons

    30 October 2024

    Cells and Salons plants the seed of aesthetic desires and watches them give rise to new worlds. It extends the invitation to conspire and theorise to both faithful and aspiring members of Verdurin’s petit clan. 


  • Conspiracy/Theory by Joseph Masco, Lisa Wedeen (eds)

    In an era of intensified information warfare, ranging from global disinformation campaigns to individual attention hacks, what are the compelling terms for political judgment? How are we to build the knowledge needed to recognise and address important forms of harm when critical information is either not to be trusted or kept hidden?

    £28.99
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