Xavi L. Aguirre

PROOFING: Resistant and Ready

Surrounding us in a site-specific installation, Xavi L. Aguirre complicates our relationships with plastic proofing materials. These materials attempt to hermetically seal us from moisture, heat, and other threatening elements, which preserve us in time. Appropriating theatrical scenographies and club cultures, Aguirre creates a space of material entanglements that exemplify how repellant architectural tactics can attract and envelop us, suggesting a collapse between protection and endangerment. Aguirre invokes tactile relationships with the built environment through physical intimacies echoed in the immersive environments. Straddling two galleries, this multimedia installation probes future-proofing through scales of consumption.

Acknowledgements
Design: stock-a-studio
Sound: Ash Fure
Commentary: Deborah Garcia

Fabrication
Agnes Parker
Cheng Qin
Samantha Ratanarat
Zachary Schumacher

Video
Boneless Pizza ~ Studio
Ian Erickson
Jayson Kim
Zachary Slonsky

Website Design
Ian Erickson
Zachary Slonsky

Installation Support
Parasite 2.0

Audio Visual Support
Chris Wood

Institutional Support
Massachusetts Institute of Technology School of Architecture and Planning
Center for Art, Science & Technology at Massachusetts Institute of Technology