Projects 2003

Johanna Billing: You Don't Love Me Yet

The film and art project
of Johanna Billing

Live event at Bar Alahuone
4 Dec 2003
From 8 pm to 3.30 am.
Mannerheimintie 13, Helsinki

Roosa Voima / Selfish Shellfish,
Tode+, Banjo & Game Boy,
Duo Minor Fighters, Christer Nuutinen
and others

Free entrance

In the artist's film and art project "You Don't Love Me Yet", concepts about the individual and the collective are unified into a positive opportunity. The catalyst for this interaction is an 80s pop song, "You Don't Love Me Yet" by American singer-songwriter Roky Erickson. Live event of the project takes place at Bar Alahuone, Helsinki, Dec 4, 2003 from 8 pm to 3.30 am with performances from Finnish artists.


In her projects, Johanna Billing often works with people who participate as themselves and contribute their experiences in a mixture of scenes, both staged and documentary in form. Here too, the viewer plays a role, as the works often originate in a social environment where co-operation and participation are part of the total experience. In the artist's film and art project "You Don't Love Me Yet", concepts about the individual and the collective are unified into a positive opportunity. The catalyst for this interaction is an 80s pop song, "You Don't Love Me Yet" by American singer-songwriter Roky Erickson where - despite the disillusioned tone - a feeling of trust and hope is discernible between the lines. The project commenced in October 2002 with live performances at Index, including more than twenty participating singers, soloists and a wide variety of bands. Roky Ericksson's song was covered again and again, reflecting the participants' own personal style.


The project's second part, Johanna Billing's film "You Don't Love Me Yet", produced in June 2003, reunited the participants only this time the individual performance is replaced by a common effort at Atlantis recording studios in Stockholm, where both a film and audio recording took place. The film, now showing at Bar Alahuone, lies somewhere between a music video and a documentary, with emphasis on the common performance. In autumn 2003, the film has being exhibited at six locations in Sweden, in collaboration with art institutions who have also acted as co-producers. By themselves, or together with local music managers and youth organisations, they too will host concerts, based on the theme of the local situation for art and music. Now it is NIFCAS turn to host the event. Despite a relatively fixed structure, in other words, repetition and personal interpretation as a strategy, each participant - private individuals as well as organised institutions - has the opportunity to determine their own part of the project from the point of view of their possibilities. The project also includes an audio CD containing the recorded song, which will be distributed free of charge. The film was furthermore screened at Frieze Art Fair, London 17 - 20 October.


The film "You Don't Love Me Yet" is produced by Index in collaboration with Nifca, Helsinki. Co-producers and collaborative partners for the film and tour are Eskilstuna's Konstmuseum (with Balsta Musikslott), Norrköpings Konstmuseum (with Allmän Kultur, Norrköping), Konstkonsulenten in Jämtlandslän (with Mångkulturkonsulenten and UKM), Konstkonsulenten in Västra Götalandsregionen (with Vara Kommun), Gävle Konstcentrum (with Musikhuset and Kultur och Fritid) and Ystad Konstmuseum. The book is published in a collaboration with Index and Milch Gallery, London, with support from IASPIS.


You don't Love me yet on tour:

Eskilstuna Konstmuseum, SE / 23 August - 21 September 2003
D.A.E. San Sebastian, ESP / 5 Septbember
Norrköpings Konstmuseum, SE / 27 Septber - 5 October
Tingshuset, Östersund, SE / 4 October
Index, Stockholm, SE / 8 October - 9 November
Frieze Art Fair, London, UK / 18 October
Vara Konserthus, SE / 9 November
Sjömanskyrkan, Gävle, SE / 6 December
Ystad konstmuseum, SE / 24 January - 1 February 2004


You don't Love me yet, 07:43, DVD 2003

Cinematography by: Manne Lindwall
(Original song by Roky Erickson, published by R.Erickson 1984)

Featuring:
Andreas Söderström, Frode Fivel, Lisa Lundqvist, Lina Selleby, Sara Lundén, Steven Cuzner, Ida Lundén, Magnus Wikström, Per Lager, Karl-Jonas Winqvist, Erik Bünger, Henry Moore Selder, Åsa Sohlgren, Marcella Svensson, Adam Kammerland, Björn Carlberg, Vijaya, Emely Ahlsén, Anders Norman, Märta Myrstener, Valdemar Gezelius, Hanna Jensen, Aina Myrstener, Christian Hörgren, Paola Cederberg, Marcus Palm, Stefan Zschernitz, Albion Venables, Ayesha, Per Gäfvert, Eric Beyond, Vejde Gustavsson, Patrik Anderson, Martin Linder, Magnus Henriksson, Jakob Hallberg.


For more information about the project go to www.indexfoundation.nu