For the long-running live touring project You Don’t Love Me Yet, multiple musicians are invited to each perform a cover version of the 1984 song of the same name by the American country singer-songwriter Roky Erickson. Expressing the hope and loss of unrequited love, the original song can be read as a larger metaphor for the “so close, yet so far away” relationship between music and art, or as an observation on the disconnect between the expectations and realities surrounding multi-artist collaborations. Performed live in twenty-seven cities around the world for nearly two decades, this project has involved musicians from all genres, ages, and levels of expertise. The resulting covers, now totaling over three hundred in number, showcase the personal styles of the individual artists while embodying a strong sense of solidarity in uniting different musicians under the same song. For this version made for the Seoul Mediacity Biennale, instead of staging a live concert, Billing has invited ten Seoul-based musicians to digitally produce and record their musical interpretations in various studios. And in addition to their presentation in the exhibition, the songs are also available for streaming and downloading from the Biennale’s website.
