November 9th-14th, 2021
Corey Hardeman, Artist Stuart Parker, Instructor
Los Altos Institute is proud to introduce our newest instructor for our summer institute series: Corey Hardeman, Canadian oil painter and activist whose haunting oil paintings demonstrate resiliency and loss in the extinction event our planet faces. Corey is one of North America’s premier landscape painters. And she is teaming up with her partner and LAI president Stuart Parker to offer a profoundly innovative and to-date-unique intensive course on landscape this May.
Some of Corey’s Work
When the word “landscape” entered the English language in the sixteenth century from Dutch, it meant “vista that looks like a Dutch landscape painting.” That is because the English and Dutch countrysides were changing due to the rise of capitalism. As the world’s first two Calvinist countries, the English and Dutch adopted new ideas about property relations that let them take advantage of the boom in a valuable new commodity: wool.
Jacob van Ruisdale’s Ruined Castle landschap Sheep farm in contemporary Yorkshire
Capitalism gave English and Dutch entrepreneurs new legal and social powers to evict peasants from the land to produce haunting “landscapes,” emptied of humans through the coercive powers of capitalism and the new private property relations it permitted. Landscapes featured “pastoral” landscapes of sheep pasturage and, often ruined and abandoned structures once inhabited by human beings.
Kinbasket Reservoir Nass Valley clearcutting Yellowstone National Park
The clearcuts, hydroelectric reservoirs and parks that cover so much of BC’s geography are produced by the alienation of people from place. Tourists and man-camp residents are temporary invaders whose relationship with the land is ephemeral and adversarial.
Our fall intensive will approach this reality from a variety of interdisciplinary perspectives, from a history of national parks since the nineteenth century to the poetry of the English romantic movement to population biology and shifting baseline syndrome to plenaire painting tutorials with brushes and charcoal. We will examine writing, art, Indigenous oral tradition and the environment around us as we explore the creation, depiction and experience of landscape.
LAI’s Stuart Parker will coordinate morning seminars; Corey Hardeman will coordinate afternoon workshops, demos and walks; Dan Jenneson, LAI’s chef of record (formerly of Quattro on Fourth) will coordinate meals and Alannah New-Small will take the role of sous chef and logistics coverage.
We will be holding our intensive at Hammond Heritage House in the northeastern Fraser Valley, in a pastoral landscape setting, where we previously held Anthropologicon I. This location is ideal for instruction during Covid and will allow us to maintain 6′ (2m) indoor distancing and substantial outdoor instructional space. The facilitators may elect to mandate masks for any portion of the discussion and instructional activities.
Registration includes:
- Three daily meals designed by our chef to maximize thematically consistent and locally sourced ingredients
- A volume of pre-circulated reading materials comprising original writing by Stuart Parker, book chapters and journal articles by scholars and artists approaching landscape from artistic, academic and political perspectives
- Morning seminars conducted at the lodge, led by Stuart
- Afternoon demonstrations and lessons conducted outdoors, led by Corey
- Four nights of evening discussions tying the day’s events together over wine and cocktails
- Four nights of private or shared accommodation
The event will runNovember 9th to 14th, comprising four days of programming over five days. Registration closes October 15th, 2021.
Registration is limited to twelve (12) fully vaccinated participants in total and is available for the full event at the following rates:
- For students and the un/under-employed, $575 for the five days. This includes classes, meals, drinks and shared accommodation. Those paying this rate may also apply for a Michael Webster Fund grant to assist with travel.
- For employed academics, activists and interested people, $1200 for the five days. This includes classes, meals, drinks and shared accommodation.
- For employed academics, activists and interested people, $1600 for the five days. This includes classes, meals, drinks and private accommodation.
Here are some photos of the facility when we held Anthropologicon there:
Here are some outdoor shots of the superb venue:
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If you are interested in attending, please let us know as soon as possible as we sort out how best to optimize the space we are renting and making other arrangements.
For photos and programs of previous institutes, check out our Dependency Theory, Anthropologicon and Rent and Empire pages.
