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Biographies

• Camille Teste

  Camille Teste is a journalist and author. In 2023, she published Politiser le bien-être (La collection sur la table), an essay that examines the place of well-being in neoliberal society and in the activist world. Camille is also host of the podcast Encore heureux (Binge audio), which links the subject of mental health to major societal issues. Taken as a whole, her work aims to explore fairer, happier and freer ways of making society.

• Nathalie Bondil

  Nathalie Bondil is a museologist and art historian. This Franco-Canadian directed the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts (2007-2020), where she led several expansion projects, as well as intercultural and interdisciplinary projects and exhibitions. In educational, inclusive, social and health actions, her commitment is recognized with innovations such as the inauguration of the Atelier international d’éducation et d’art-thérapie, the “Arts et Santé” and “Vivre-Ensemble” committees, and numerous pilot projects such as “museum medical prescriptions” in 2018 with the Association des médecins francophones du Canada. Since 2021, she has continued to implement her concept with the summer school “Arts et santé: la place de la muséothérapie” and is leading a seminar on museum therapy at the École du Louvre in Paris. As Director of Museum and Exhibitions at the Institut du Monde Arabe, she is in charge of the redesign project for a more contemporary, inclusive and intercultural “New IMA Museum”.

• Pierre Lemarquis

  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.

• Tolten

  Tolten (Thomas Rime) is a clinical psychologist who has been practicing slam poetry for over 20 years. He is also a musician. He has published Les maux et les phrases et autres nouvelles du soin and L’être ange monde (Champ Social), and has spoken at over 150 conferences and symposia with his sound sketches. He runs writing workshops in prisons, psychiatric hospitals, kindergartens, secondary schools, Institut Médico-Éducatif, Institut Thérapeutique Éducatif et Pédagogique, ESATs, SESSADs, SAVSs, with patients, care teams and media libraries. He is also an instructor for the Diplôme Universitaire d’animateur et d’animatrice d’atelier d’écriture at the University of Aix-Marseille. www.tolten.org

• Alicia Vaïsse

  Alicia Vaïsse, born in 1983, is a graduate of the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris and holds a Master’s degree in Law and Art History. For many years, she taught both visual arts and horse riding, constantly striving to forge links between these two disciplines. She has also carried out research highlighting the benefits of riding and the relationship with the horse, both for the well-being of pupils and for their learning. After training in art therapy at the Centre d’étude de l’expression de l’hôpital Sainte-Anne in Paris, she is now committed to integrating her artistic and pedagogical knowledge into her approach to teaching horse riding, and through equicoaching and working on foot workshops. Now manager of a horse breeding farm in the Alpilles region, she organizes equestrian stays based on animal welfare and light, horse-friendly riding. Here, she pursues her artistic practice in a variety of forms: drawing, painting and photography. Her inspiration comes both from the animal world around her and from her imagination, nourished by documentary and fictional literature.