You Don't Love Me Yet brings people together in an inviting encounter between the artist, musicians, and audience members; the catalyst of which is an 80's pop song.

In her long term project You don’t love me yet, which has been touring
to different international cities between 2002 and 2006, Madrid will be
the 16th location, Johanna Billing invites musicians to play a live
cover version of a 1984 song by the American singer-songwriter Roky
Erickson according to their own interpretation. The idea sprung from a
fact the artist heard on the radio that there are more citizens living
alone in Sweden than in any other country in the world.

In this project, that plays with the potential of covers and their
invitation for subversion and reclamation, Johanna Billing makes
herself as an artist almost invisible. Behind the scenes though, she
organizes the event as precisely as possible. For example, by choosing
a location that normally is not used as a music podium, or proposing an
afternoon to stage the event instead of an evening, she consciously
tries to break through existing patterns of behavior in both the music
and the visual arts scene. As an artist she facilitates a collective
experience where individuality expresses itself in the different
artistic interpretations of the song, where the performing musicians
are invited to listen to each others’ presentations and where the
audience is witness to the potential of repetition, as the event
offeres a wide range of versions of this sole song text. Each event has
its specific line up of performances by rock bands, choirs, laptop
musicians, professionals, amateurs or impromptu get togethers, mainly
coming from the local scene. All the concerts end with the video
screening of the studio recording of You don’t love me yet, a work made
by Johanna Billing together with a group of Swedish musicians in
Stockholm, 2003.