Monobloc documents a site-specific installation by Scottish performance artist Zander McKenzie (b. 2003), in collaboration with Harry Boulton and Callum Harrison. Over the course of a week in March 2025, The Burrow staged the work across four major cities — Glasgow, Belfast, Manchester and London — in which the front door of a home was replaced with a clear cast acrylic structure (Perspex), transforming a private threshold into a public frame. In this altered threshold, McKenzie spent over 32 cumulative hours methodically dismantling and reassembling an MG F K Series 1.8 litre car engine — from memory. Through this quiet, durational act, Monobloc interrogates and exposes how capitalist frameworks of labour shape space, privacy and our relationship with the built environment.
The publication is a collaboration between Zander McKenzie, Harry Boulton and Callum Harrison — with written contributions by Harry Boulton, Arthur Channon, Toby Üpson, Tara McGinn, Maeve Thompson and Thomas King.
Monobloc was presented at Reference Point Bookshop on Monday 15 December 2025, accompanied by a live discussion between the three collaborators and guest speaker Sighle Bhreathnach-Cashell, a member of Array Collective and Recipient of the 2021 Turner Prize.
Zander McKenzie
Harry Boulton
Callum Harrison Toby Üpson
Tara McGinn
Maeve Thompson
Thomas King