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About Pierre d'Alancaisez
Pierre d’Alancaisez is a PhD researcher at Birmingham City University, where he is investigating the impact claims of social and political art in the context of artists' access to non-arts knowledge and skills. Pierre founded and directed Waterside Contemporary in London, a gallery that pioneered social practice and art activism approaches in the art market. He held senior positions in publishing and financial services and designed cultural engagement strategies for higher education and the charity sector.Pierre d’Alancaisez is a contemporary art curator and critic. Sometime scientist, financial services professional, he now runs Verdurin in London..
NBN Episodes hosted by Pierre:
November 29, 2025
Art After Liberalism
Art After Liberalism (Columbia UP, 2022) is an account of creative practice at a moment of converging political and social rifts – a moment that could…
April 7, 2025
Legitimacy in Liberal Democracies
Liberal democracies don’t age gracefully. Established systems of governance like those of the UK and the US which once served as blueprints are today …
March 5, 2025
Post-Comedy
Not so long ago, comedy and laughter were a shared experience of relief, as Freud famously argued. At their best, ribbing, roasting, piss-taking and i…
January 2, 2025
The Making of the American Creative Class
During the middle decades of the twentieth century, the production of America’s consumer culture was centralized in New York to an extent unparalleled…
August 23, 2024
Another Aesthetics Is Possible
In Another Aesthetics Is Possible: Arts of Rebellion in the Fourth World War (Duke UP, 2021), Jennifer Ponce de León examines the roles that art can p…
January 2, 2024
Museums and Societal Collapse
Who do you turn to at the brink of the apocalypse? What might help us to mitigate the financial, commercial, political, social, and cultural collapse …
November 29, 2023
Artists Remake the World
Artists Remake the World: A Contemporary Art Manifesto (Yale UP, 2023) puts forward an account of contemporary art’s political ambitions and potential…
July 28, 2023
The Chronic Crisis of American Democracy
Today I talked to Benjamin Studebaker about his new book The Chronic Crisis of American Democracy: The Way Is Shut (Palgrave MacMillan, 2023) America…
July 2, 2023
Future Imperfect
Then let the story really begin in 1968, though it has little to do with May. By chance it opens in January of that year, and it really concerns me ra…
June 13, 2023
The Museum
On an afternoon in January 1865, a roaring fire swept through the Smithsonian Institution. Dazed soldiers and worried citizens could only watch as the…
May 13, 2023
Curating Fascism
On the centenary of the fascist party's ascent to power in Italy, Curating Fascism: Exhibitions and Memory from the Fall of Mussolini to Today (Blooms…
April 29, 2023
Uncommon Sense
In Uncommon Sense: Aesthetics after Marcuse (MIT Press, 2022), Craig Leonard argues for the contemporary relevance of the aesthetic theory of Herbert …
April 3, 2023
Proof of Work
Listen on Apple | Listen on Spotify NFT, BTC, DAO, ETH, WAGMI, HODL. It would have been hard to avoid these acronyms only a year ago. The hype around…
March 22, 2023
Visual Culture and the Forensic
The relationship between images and truth has a complicated history. In the Western tradition, the Kantian settlement on aesthetic judgment as detache…
March 12, 2023
The Covid Consensus
During the first months of the pandemic, governments worldwide agreed that ‘following the science’ with hard lockdowns and vaccine mandates was the be…
February 20, 2023
Failures in Cultural Participation
For the past two decades, the arts and cultural establishment in the UK has been trying to engage a broader set of audiences in their work. Countless …
February 3, 2023
Beautiful, Gruesome, and True
Art has a long history of engaging with conflict and violence. From the antiquities, through Goya, to Guernica, our museums are filled with depictions…
December 31, 2022
The Influencing Machine
In the 1990s, a network of twenty Soros Centres for Contemporary Art sprung up across Eastern Europe: Almaty, Belgrade, Budapest, Kiev, Ljubljana, Pra…
December 22, 2022
Sad by Design
Why is the internet making us so unhappy? Why is it in capital’s interests to cultivate populations that are depressed and desperate rather than drive…
November 4, 2022
Hipster Porn:
It’s easy to forget that the cultural archetypes that pass for queerness today have historical roots. Some of these roots are mere years away from tod…
September 27, 2022
The Art of Activism and the Activism of Art
Since the global financial crash of 2008, artists have become increasingly engaged in a wide range of cultural activism targeted against capitalism, p…
September 22, 2022
Against Decolonization
Decolonisation has lost its way. Originally a struggle to escape the West’s direct political and economic control, it has become a catch-all idea, oft…
September 1, 2022
Critique in Practice
In 2008, the artist Renzo Martens released his controversial film Episode 3: Enjoy Poverty filmed in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The film portra…
August 22, 2022
After Institutions
Faced with waning state support, declining revenue, and forced entrepreneurialism, museums have become a threatened public space. Simultaneously, they…