In my right mind #2

François Crémieux is a senior civil servant, who has been CEO of Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Marseille since 2021. His areas of interest are healthcare policy and healthcare economics. He was deputy director general of AP-HP from September 2018 to May 2021 and previously director of Hôpitaux Universitaires Paris Nord Val-de-Seine HUPNVS AP-HP (2014-2018). He was advisor to Marisol Touraine, Minister of Social Affairs and Health, from 2012 to 2014, responsible for the national health strategy. From 2010 to 2012, he was director of the “healthcare establishments” division of the Agence Régionale de Santé d’Île de France, reporting to Claude Évin. Between 2000 and 2010, he held a number of positions at AP-HP. His professional career has been mainly devoted to hospital management, with extensive experience of war-torn countries and healthcare policies in post-conflict reconstruction periods. He also worked for the United Nations and the World Health Organization (WHO) in the early 2000s. François Crémieux has carried out numerous international missions for the WHO and the Ministries of Foreign Affairs and Health. He is also a member of the editorial board and supervisory board of Esprit magazine.

Pierre Lemarquis is a neurologist, neurophysiologist, lecturer at the University of Toulon (ethology) and coordinator of the “Cultural Prescriptions: Art and Health” University Diploma in Lyon. A former organist and chorister, he is vice-president of the Harmonies d’Orphée chamber orchestra, co-founder of the Musica Classica Festival (Haute-Corse) and president of the association “L’invitation à la beauté”, supported by WHO and Unesco, which promotes the value of art in healthcare. Author of several books published by Odile Jacob, including Les pouvoirs de la musique sur le cerveau des enfants et des adultes, and L’art qui guérit and L’art qui guérit la mémoire, both published by Hazan.

Dominique Spiess is an expert in issues relating to Art, Culture and Health. She conducts research on the impact of emotion in the care of people with neuro-evolutionary disorders, and provides numerous training courses.

After working as an art book editor and author, she was recruited to join hospital management at the APHP, where she designed cultural policies for hospital establishments. She founded the association Culture & Hôpital, whose mission is to contribute to improving the quality of life and health of people in hospital, living in institutions or being cared for at home, through artistic and cultural mediation. She was awarded the Trophée d’Or de l’Innovation territoriale by the French Senate for the design of the D.U.C.A. (Dispositif Urbain Culture Alzheimer), a follow-up and support program for people suffering from neuro-evolutionary diseases.

Dominique Spiess is behind a number of training and teaching programs. In 2013, she created the first “Culture/Health” diploma course at the CNAM, Conservatoire national des Arts et Métiers. In 2018, she opened the “Culture, Soins et Accompagnement: une démarche innovante pluridisciplinaire pour mieux soigner et accompagner” university diploma program at the Université Paris Santé Sorbonne. She now teaches and coordinates the program.

Matthieu Parent is a photographer, filmmaker and associate artist at Théâtre de l’Astronef. Trained at the ICP in New York, his work for over twenty years has focused on photography, documentary and participatory projects. He collaborates with numerous cultural and social institutions, weaving visual narratives that shed light on communities and territories. His work ranges from photographic exhibitions to documentary films, always rooted in human experience and sharing.

Niccolò Scognamiglio is an actor and director. Trained in Italy, he moved to Marseille in 2012, where he has since developed a career rich in experience and artistic encounters. In 2013, his passion for Shakespeare led him to stage A Midsummer Night’s Dream, which proved a great success in Marseille and the surrounding area. His interest in philosophy and ancient Greece then led him to propose an adaptation of Plato’s Banquet at the Grandes Tables de la Friche Belle de Mai. In 2016, he founded Officine Théâtrale Barbacane, with whom he participated in the opening of MP2018 Quel Amour! by creating, in collaboration with the Alhambra cinema and the Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival, the show L’Amour court(s) toujours, presented at the Mucem. In 2020, he signed Ail, basilic et menthe, a poetic and theatrical tribute to Marseille writer Jean-Claude Izzo. Since 2019, he has been performing Novecento : pianiste, a cult monologue by Alessandro Baricco. Associate artist at the Théâtre de l’Astronef since 2021, in 2023 he will create Don Quichotte, a show touring Marseille and the region. He is currently working on the staging of Federico García Lorca’s La Maison de Bernarda Alba and on a production for young audiences, Le Baron Perché by Italo Calvino.

Leslie Labbé studied at the École du Louvre, where she obtained a bachelor’s degree in art history and a master’s in museology. She devoted her dissertation to “museum therapy”, and has since taken an interest in the links between museums and health. Some of her research has been published by OCIM under the title “La muséothérapie, Analyse des potentiels thérapeutiques du musée”.

She then spent over a year as a project manager for the association Culture & Hôpital, which supported the care of people with neuro-evolutionary diseases, and their carers, through art and culture in Paris. Leslie also lived and worked for a year in Montreal as a research professional for the AgeteQ laboratory, which studies, among other things, the links between the arts and health. Today, she is deputy director of an educational farm, and works in particular to help children, teenagers and people with disabilities (children and adults) discover their natural heritage and raise awareness of ecological issues.

Jasmine Lebert has an academic background in art history, history, archaeology and philosophy. Since 2003, she has been working in the field of live performance. From one creative center to another – Centre dramatique national de Montreuil, CNDC d’Angers Centre national de danse contemporaine, Lieux publics center national de création en espace public à Marseille, Points communs scène nationale de Cergy-Pontoise – she has developed a decompartmentalized approach to artistic creation, between different creation and distribution networks. Her multidisciplinary career is marked by circularities between artistic disciplines and between artistic creation and civil society. She is particularly interested in the links between art and society, aesthetics and politics. Since 2020, she has been managing director and artistic director of the performing arts at 3 bis f, a contemporary arts center of national interest within the Montperrin Psychiatric Hospital in Aix-en-Provence, a singular place of memory, art and hospitality. In 2023, she will initiate the Art, Care, Citizenship network.

Ada Picard is a child and adolescent psychiatrist (APHM Salvator). She is also a painter and is currently a doctoral student at EHESS studying the links between the creative process, female corporeity and mental health.

Fabrice Chardon is a university-qualified art therapist, clinical psychologist, director of teaching and research at Afratapem and scientific director of the University Diplomas in Art Therapy at the medical faculties of Tours, Grenoble and Lille-Ucl.

Magaly David began her career as a social worker, a profession she pursued for fifteen years within associations and local authorities. In 2018, she moved into project management and public policy management, first as a project manager for the French Department of Urban Policy, then joining the Ministry of Culture in 2023 as a project manager for culture/health, medical-social care and disability.

Pierre Lemarquis is a neurologist, neurophysiologist, lecturer at the University of Toulon (ethology) and coordinator of the “Cultural Prescriptions: Art and Health” University Diploma in Lyon. A former organist and chorister, he is vice-president of the Harmonies d’Orphée chamber orchestra, co-founder of the Musica Classica Festival (Haute-Corse) and president of the association “L’invitation à la beauté”, supported by WHO and Unesco, which promotes the value of art in healthcare. Author of several books published by Odile Jacob, including Les pouvoirs de la musique sur le cerveau des enfants et des adultes, and L’art qui guérit and L’art qui guérit la mémoire, both published by Hazan.

Lucile Bordes teaches at the University of Toulon and is the author of Je suis la marquise de Carabas, Décorama and 86, année blanche (éditions Liana Levi). In 2022, she published Que faire de la beauté? (Les Avrils) and Aurélie et autres femmes sans nom (éditions Thierry Marchaisse, Prix PaN 2023).