Alice Pialoux is particularly interested in discursive forms such as interviews, talks or lectures. She studied Art History at University Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne, and dance and Theatre History at University Paris 3 Sorbonne-Nouvelle. Her work focused on Douglas Huebler’s artist books. She founded in 2013 with Alice Dusapin the magazine octopusnotes. Baptiste Pinteaux and Martin Laborde joined the team in 2017. Over the years, octopusnotes invited critics and researchers such as Sabrina Tarasoff, Naoki Sutter-Shudo or Zoé Stillpass. They presented interviews with artists such as Alexandra Bircken or Alexandre Estrela, essays on Philip Guston, Seth Price or Bern Porter and artist editions by Bruno Serralongue, Cosey Fanni Tutti or Ana Jotta, among other others. They are currently working on the 10th issue for spring 2020.
In her position at the Centre Pompidou Alice Pialoux is involved in the development of programs such as MOVE festival, dedicated to performing arts, and in various invitations to participate in conferences and talks