Johanna Billing

You Don’t Love Me Yet, 2002-2021. Documentation from live tour, DVD, Mixed Media

You Don’t Love Me Yet (Tour)

The “You Don’t Love Me Yet” project, a bittersweet convergence between the individual and the audience, consists of both a film (2003) in which a group of Swedish musicians are coming together to record a cover version of the 1984 ambiguous love song “You Don’t Love Me Yet”, by the Texan singer-songwriter Roky Erickson, in Atlantis studio in Stockholm, and an ongoing live tour (2002-2021) in which local musicians in different cities were invited to cover the same song. It has during the tour been covered again and again and repeated in a wide variety of interpretations each reflecting the participants' own personal style. In this project, the cover version is used as a catalyst to explore ways of maintaining originality and uniqueness of personal as well as artistic integrity both on an individual and collective level. In an online archive, that was created in 2017 the now more than 300 versions are presented. www.youdontlovemeyetarchive.com

You Don’t Love Me Yet, 2002-2021. Documentation from live tour, DVD, Mixed Media

Live at Index, Stockholm, 4/10, 2002, Eskilstuna Art Museum, Eskilstuna, 23/8, Norrköping Art Museum, Norrköping, 27/9, Tingshuset, Östersund, 4/10, Frieze Art Fair, London, 8/10, Vara Consert House, Vara, 9/11, Bar Alahuone, Helsinki, 4/12, 2003, Ystad Art Museum, Ystad, 24/1, Vedanta Gallery, Chicago, 30/4, 2004, Milton Keynes Gallery, Milton Keynes, 15/3, If I Can’t Dance I Don’t Want To Be Part of Your Revolution : Festival a/d Werf, Utrecht, 19/5, Festival Boulevard, Hertogenbosch, 5/8, De VeenFabriek, Leiden, 27/11, 2005, the Lab, San Francisco, 16/11, Basis, Frankfurt, 17/11, 2006, Circulo de Bellas Artes, Madrid, 12/2, 2007, Kammerspiele, München, Munich, 1/11, 2008, Mercer Union, Toronto, 15/8, , Live at The Toff, Melbourne, 16/8, Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne, 22/8, Arnolfini, Bristol, 24/10, 2009, Modern Art Oxford, Oxford, 28/5, 2010, The Mac, Belfast, 8/9, Mac/Val, Vitry-sur-Seine, 16/9, 2012, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sidney, 30/8, 2013

Documentation material on DVD # 1 - 26 from the ”You Don’t Love Me Yet” live performance tour 2002-2013 featuring cover versions of the song ” You Don’t Love Me Yet” (originally written by Roky Erickson. published by R.Erickson 1984).

Performed by local bands and artists in each city

Co-produced by Johanna Billing and the collaboration partners of the tour