Montage(s) of a Disaster: Voyage(s) en utopie by Jean-Luc Godard

Abstract

This article discusses Jean-Luc Godard’s 2006 exhibition Voyage(s) en utopie at the Centre Pompidou and argues that, beyond its provocative critique of the art museum as institution, the work’s importance lies in the transposition to the gallery environment of the dialectically inflected montage techniques that had been developed in the course of Godard’s vast Histoire(s) du cinéma project.