Christophe Alix is an artist, researcher, and lecturer in performance art. He is currently Research Coordinator at IAD (Institut des Arts de la Diffusion) in Louvain-la-Neuve and served as Director of the École supérieure des Arts de l’image Le 75 in Brussels from 2014 to 2024.

He lived in England for nearly twenty years, where he obtained a Ph.D. from Aston University and taught Theatre and Performance Studies at the School of Arts and New Media, University of Hull (2003–2014). Prior to this, in France, he completed legal studies (LL.B. in Public Law, 1993; Master’s degree in Private International Law, 1994, University of Montpellier) while developing his first theatrical creations and performances.

Since the mid-1990s, his practice and research have focused on performance art. He has explored a wide range of presentation contexts — from national stages to domestic spaces and cabarets — interrogating the (re)presentation of the body and its scenic textuality (Ubu, 2002–2003; The Well-Established World Before, During and After It Falls, 2010–2013), the relationship to technology (Objects Found or Lost, 2005–2006, with lucille calmel; Cuisine, 2008–2011, with Jean-François and Jérôme Blanquet, Benoît Bellet), as well as queer spaces through numerous collaborations (including Isabelle Bats and Jean Biche).

Since 2015, he has developed the concept of “invisible performance,” exploring performance outside the traditional framework of representation. The project Voisinage et performance invisible : observer, écrire, recevoir, developed in collaboration with Mélanie Peduzzi and Raphaël Balboni, culminated in a public presentation at L’Imaginaire/Centre des Arts et de la Culture in Douchy-les-Mines in 2017.

He has published and contributed to numerous books, journals, seminars, and conferences on performance (dramaturgy, stage directions in Antonin Artaud, kitsch, pedagogy, cyberculture, queer theory, subversion, activism). Long committed to the recognition of artistic research within higher education, he has served on the board of a/r – art/recherche and on the Board of Directors of FRArt, and has been a member of the scientific committee of the journal Agôn since 2021.

As a guest lecturer, he continues to teach performance workshops internationally, striving not to separate practice from theory in his teaching and research. His works, as well as collaborative projects, have been produced, presented, or broadcast in Belgium (Trouble, Les Halles de Schaerbeek, La Bellone, Kunstencentrum Buda, etc.) and internationally, including at the Festival d’Avignon, the Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art (MIMA), Hangar.org (Barcelona), Kunstradio (Vienna), and Teatro Valle (Rome).