PICA's TBA festival is not performance only, it has visual arts too, and they are all free. The first, Water, by Claudia Meza, opens this evening. It involves sound from ferries, rivers, oceans, waterfalls, water taps, water bowls and many other watery things delivered by cassette audio tapes from large numbers of archaic playing devices. Meza is a performing musician in Explode Into Colors, has created the Sonic City PDX project, and the New Metrics program for composers. The show also includes a video work and Sonic City documentation. At the University of Oregon White Stag Building, http://whitebox.uoregon.edu/ 70 NW Couch 6PM-9 Free
The Wallz is the new graffitti and wheat paste wall work gallery, at BMX course The Lumberyard. They open a show this evening, Locals Only, of local artists. At The Wallz thewallzgallery.blogspot.com in The Lumberyard www.lumberyardmtb.com 2700 NE 82nd 7PM-10 Free
Brian Khek & Micah Schippa from Chicago open Touching You Touching Everything tonight at Appendix Project Space. Both artists live in, and were schooled in Chicago, we'll see if they vibe the cool, deep minimalism characteristic of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Appendix now has a fancy gravel alley and no hay, no sketchy shrubbery and no blackberries, the alley is being gentrified,, but Appendix is in the same place. At Appendix Project Space www.appendixspace.com On the alley between 26th and 27th, South of Alberta. Map 8-late Free
