Milngavie Columbo

Installation view of the entrance to Govan Project Space, its white doors and walls spray-painted with protest-style graffiti reading "Glasgow Life or Death, Scotland Free or a Desert...", "From Urdaibai to Milngavie the Guggenheim must die" and "Glasgow", with handmade placards reading "Artists Against the Arsehole" and "All Hail Cultural Economic Development" propped against the wall beside a Govan Project Space sign.

Sculptural installation of a black coat with a blue lining and cuff, hung on a broom propped against a white gallery wall, its bristles resting on the floor.

Framed illustrated artwork on a white gallery wall, styled as a spoof film poster titled "Milngavie Columbo: Glasgow Life or Death", depicting a figure in a mustard coat holding a key beside a clock tower, with the tagline "Jamie Bolland is".

Dates and Opening times

Thu - Sun

12pm - 6pm, 5 - 21 Jun

Venue

Govan Project Space, Unit 1, 249 Govan Road, G51 1HJ

Participants

Hussein Mitha Jamie Bolland Nadia Rossi Bex Šik Joey Simons

Presented by

Jamie Bolland, Hussein Mitha, Nadia Rossi, Bex Šik, Joey Simons

Supported by

Govan Project Space

Accessiblity

Level Access, Step Free: The Venue has ramped or level access and/or lifts to upper floors

Accessible Toilets: The venue has a wheelchair accessible toilet

Gender Neutral Toilets: The venue has toilets not separated by gender or sex

Baby change: The venue has baby changing facilities

Bike rack: There is cycle parking at the venue

Imbued with the spirit of class warfare from the original 1970s detective show, Milngavie Columbo is an experimental installation drawing together fragments of scripts, storyboards, soundtracks, audition tapes, and architectural models to create a satire of the villainous artworld bourgeoisie.

Forty years on from Glasgow’s tenure as the European City of Culture, the well-heeled suburb of Milngavie has won the bid for Britain’s first Guggenheim Museum. A turf war ensues as developers, architects, and art directors tear each other apart to secure lucrative posts and contracts.

When a body turns up draped across Milngavie town square’s famous clock, Columbo is brought in to solve the case, only to uncover backstabbing and skulduggery among those charged with delivering cultural salvation to the city. The interlocking structures of class, culture, and power are revealed as he closes in on the suspects.