If you’re in Washington, DC this month, you’ll want to check out two incredible evenings of fashion and art at the Textile Museum. The event, sponsored by New York-based arts collective INTERWOVEN, features designers threeASFOUR and Henrik Vibskov, as well as artist Peggy Noland, among others, as they unveil unique textile-focused performance art, fashion presentations and film screenings.

On the evening of July 23rd, New York-based fashion collective threeASFOUR, whose designers hail from Lebanon, Israel, and Tajikistan, will collaborate on a performance highlighting their ethereal and sculptural approach to textile design, while provoking a discussion of an individual’s role within society. Their medium and format: live models and actors onstage (see photo at left), performing a ritualistic altering and reshaping of fabric.

The July 24th program, meantime, will feature the first American appearance by Copenhagen-based design duo Henrik Vibskov and Andreas Emenius. Vibskov (who we profiled in Issue 6) and Emenium are unveiling their site-specific installation called “The Circular Series,” which uses the contrasts of a large, rigid geometric structure to speak to the ideas of human rituals and social constructs.

In addition to the installations, the event will feature a screening of Vibskov and Emenius’ Project 8 (see top photo) and Project 9 (set to an original soundtrack scored by one of our favorite Swedish recording artists, Fever Ray) and threeASFOUR’s video collaboration with Yoko Ono.

Noland’s imaginative and sometimes controversial work will engage guests as they enter the Museum with a performance that experiments with enlarged and deformed shapes on the body, creating an unorthodox silhouette, and speaking to an ongoing social idea of high versus low culture, art versus commerce.

Throughout the two-night event, guests will have the opportunity to chat with the artists and participate in a number of hands-on, interactive exhibits and artworks. Think of it as an event that engages all the senses, while simultaneously providing some informative discussion and debate. Tickets to the event are $20. For more information, check out www.interwovenarts.com.