Cai Guo-Qiang at the Pompidou Center, full performance, Paris 2025

Paris Walking Tour 692: A pyrotechnic performance by Chinese artist Cai Guo-Qiang at the Pompidou Center, Place Georges Pompidou, Beaubourg, Paris, France. Before its five-year closure for renovations, the Centre Pompidou invited Chinese artist Cai Guo-Qiang to offer a festive and spectacular performance entitled The Last Carnival, on October 22, 2025, at 5:30 p.m. Born in 1957 and world-renowned for his superb monumental works using gunpowder, a central ingredient in fireworks, he designed this performance specifically for the building's façade with the help of artificial intelligence: cAITM, his personal AI. Blending ancestral Chinese traditions and new technologies, this "pyrotechnic fresco" unfolded in three acts ("The Banquet," "The Awakening of Artificial Intelligence," and "The Last Carnival"), "reflecting the past, present, and future of the Centre Pompidou," while questioning "the non-human perspective on art history." 😅 The artist has been criticized for fueling Chinese government propaganda by designing the fireworks for the 2008 Beijing Olympics opening ceremony, and for the pollution caused by his works. His fireworks display, held on September 19th on a mountain ridge in the Tibet Autonomous Region, sparked fierce protests due to toxic debris and potential damage to wildlife and vegetation, which explains the small demonstration at the end of the event. Walked streets and places seen: Pompidou center, Place Georges Pompidou, Beaubourg, Paris, France. #beaubourg #centrepompidou #caiguoqiang #placegeorgespompidou #artcontemporain #contemporaryart #4tharrondissement #4emearrondissement #paris #france #parisvlog #WalkInParis #ParisWalkingTour #ParisWalk #CityWalk #VirtualWalkInParis #ParisStreetTour All material in this video is original and personally recorded by myself on location. Copyright © 2025 Walk In The City. All Rights Reserved. The unauthorized reproduction or distribution of this copyrighted work is illegal. Music used in this video courtesy of Montorgueil Records:    / @montorgueilrecords   About this channel : This channel presents the videos shot during my walks in Paris, and other cities of France mainly, Le Grau du Roi, Megève, Arcachon, La Rochelle, Ars-en-Ré, Le Bois-Plage-en-Ré, Bonifacio, Saint-Cyr-sur-Mer, etc. Hope you enjoy it, and if so, feel free to subscribe and like and share the videos. Good viewing to all! If you like this channel, you can support me via: 👉 Tipeee: https://en.tipeee.com/walkinthecity/ 👉 PayPal: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted...