Demonstrators gathered outside the Centre Pompidou in Paris on Wednesday, October 22, to protest a fireworks performance by Cai Guo-Qiang and call for a boycott over his controversial stunt in the Himalayas earlier this year. Cai’s destructive spectacles have often sparked controversy. Backlash escalated after he was commissioned by the outdoor brand Arc’teryx to stage a fireworks display on a mountain ridge in the Tibetan Himalayas this September. Despite the Chinese-owned company’s claims that “biodegradable materials” were used and livestock relocated, the show was accused of causing damage to the ecosystem. “Tibet is not a stage for corporate spectacle,” said Students for a Free Tibet France, the group behind the Pompidou demonstration. “What took place in Shigatse, Tibet, was not art, it was exploitation. China’s occupation of Tibet continues to wreak havoc on Tibet’s fragile ecosystem. And by detonating over a thousand explosives on Tibet’s sacred land, Arc’teryx and Cai Guo-Qi...