Martin Beauregard, Jonathan Hope

Spectral Ecologies and Speculative Memories

Visual Arts

DesPrés — 57 Principale Nord Street, Sutton, QC

Biography

Martin Beauregard is an artist-researcher and professor of creation and new media at the Université du Québec en Abitibi-Témiscamingue (UQAT). He directs the UQAT Institutional Research-Creation Chair in Environmental Art, Eco-design, and Digital Fabrication. His work examines the relationships between materiality, territories, and ecological transformations, employing co-creation approaches rooted in situated practices.

A professor in the Department of Literary Studies at the Université du Québec à Montréal, Jonathan Hope is the author of Ce lac (2024), Accueils de l’autre-qu’humain (2025), Escarres (2026), and Les saisons d’un lac (2026). His projects, including Rewriting the Boreal Forest and Spectralities and Speculations of Lake Osisko, explore flexible, creative, and collaborative literary practices.

Approach

Rooted in environmental arts and letters, Beauregard and Hope’s projects multiply material and textual experiments on our ways of inhabiting. The residency will result in an interdisciplinary, protean installation combining writing, visual devices, and material interventions. We will propose a work in dialogue with the Arts et de rêves site. A landscape intervention, whether ephemeral or more permanent, will be produced. This will metamorphose with the seasons, highlighting the passage of time and weather patterns. This work may lead to a subsequent publication or video production resulting from the encounter.