Sense and the City III

Sense and the City III
V&A Friday Late June

Lucy Orta's first installation in a major UK museum plus a DIY sound session in the Pirelli Garden with leading architect Alvaro Siza in conversation

25 June 2004, 6.30pm - 10pm

The V&A, in collaboration with Arts Council England, presents Sense and the City III, an Architecture Week event that will include exclusive art work by Lucy Orta, an interview with leading architect Alvaro Siza, a DIY DJ session in the Pirelli Garden and the launch of Neverending Drawing. Special artist installations and tours by leading architects and designers revealing their favourite objects at the V&A will also take place on the evening. Also last chance to see Rachel Whiteread's Untitled (Room 101) in the V&A's Cast Courts.

A series of unique installations and events provide a night of architectural exploration -

Artist Lucy Orta will create a series entitled Nexus Architecture, featuring live installations throughout the V&A galleries. Fifty individuals dressed in military surplus clothing with Swarovski Crystal incrustations will be linked throughout the galleries in a series of choreographed sets, against the backdrop of museum artefacts.

Jason Bruges's Infinity Ceiling projection will make people look up in the main entrance with clouds drifting across banners suspended above the entrance space. The clouds will interact with the movement of the people walking in the space below.

The Bring and Share DJs invite visitors to bring their favourite CDs and vinyl to be incorporated into a Sense and the City music session which will rock the Pirelli Garden.

The launch of Neverending Drawing, a continuous sketched streetscape which visitors can contribute to until November when the new Architecture Gallery and Study Rooms will open at the V&A as part of the V&A + RIBA Architecture Partnership.

World-famous architect Alvaro Siza in conversation with Philip Jodidio, a special V&A + RIBA Architecture Partnership event. Siza's most celebrated projects include the Oporto Museum of Modern Art and the School of Architecture at Oporto University, Portugal. Siza was also winner of the 1992 Pritzker Prize.

Rachel Whiteread's Untitled (Room 101) in the V&A's Cast Courts - last chance to see. The sculpture commemorates the office whose number Orwell adopted for the torture chamber in his distopian novel 1984.

Performance project Lone Twin will present Streets of London, a reading of the entire London A-Z index. Starting from opposite ends of the index the pair hope to meet somewhere in the middle on a street in London.

Architours, tours around the V&A with top architects and designers, will take place at regular intervals with leading figures such as Eva Jiricna and Eric Parry highlighting particular favourites in the V&A's world-famous collections, explaining how V&A objects have inspired their work.