Honey weaves a tale of apocalyptic desire. Left alone, a woman has wandered out of the woods and into a desolate kitchen. A strange encounter with a visitor is imagined, forcing the viewer to become an accomplice of her desire. Utilizing the metaphor of the bees dying around the world as a symbol of female fertility and desire, Honey explores the stress and desire of female fertility, with the expectation of women to procreate.

“Where does the power of the female reside? How is it preserved? Or transmitted? Hecate knew. She, the goddess of wild places, of childbirth, of crossroads, of all the in-between spaces between this world and the next, she knew. It is in the body of the beloved. It is in the sweet, sweet voice. It is in the eyes and the seductive curve of lip and cheek, so beloved by the poet and the painter. And it is these archetypal signs of "come hither" that foster the rise of the blood necessary for each act of the flesh. But what of the body made barren and what, indeed, of the missing bees, no longer capable of lending their sturdy industry to the pointless purpose of pollination.

"Poof, I'm gone," says humanity. Thus goes the allegorical seduction poem of Andrea Cooper's new work Honey. In Honey, Cooper delivers another of her signature meta-performances, channeling desire and dread in equal parts, raising the hair on the back of the neck with her monologue of louche libido trapped in "a kitchen without utensils, in a womb without seed." She 'performs' fertility with the slapstick shtick of a basketball-as-baby-bump only to turn gracefully into the heartbreaking image of a wan pole dancer, great with child and still curled around the phallus of dreamy desire. Honey is a work of great courage. It is hard to watch, and impossible to forget. “ - Lisa Steele, Creative Director, Vtape

Without bees the world will become barren – no apples, almonds, avocados, melons. Honeybees form an integral part of the human food chain. Yet, something is causing them to vanish. Female fertility, the stress, desire and expectation of women to procreate hinges on the future of civilization, as does the fertility and future of bees.

Honey premiered at the Berlinale in 2010 and the Images Festival in 2010.