I Wanna Deliver a Dolphin...

Trinity College Dublin ^ | Installation, 2011 Ai Hasegawa (JP) | Staff

[mlizzy]

Humans are genetically predisposed to raise children as a way of passing on their genes to the next generation. For some, the struggle to raise a child in decent conditions is becoming harder due to gross overpopulation and an increasingly strained global environment.

This project approaches the problem of human reproduction in an age of overcrowding, overdevelopment and environmental crisis. With potential food shortages and a population of nearly seven billion people, would a woman consider incubating and giving birth to an endangered species such as a shark, tuna or dolphin? This project introduces the argument for giving birth to our food to satisfy our demands for nutrition and childbirth, and discusses some of the technical details of how this might be possible.

Would raising this animal as a child change its value so drastically that we would be unable to consume it because it would be imbued with the love of motherhood? The Maui’s dolphin has been chosen as the ideal ‘baby’ for this piece. It is one of the world’s rarest and smallest dolphins, classified critically endangered by the International Union for Conservation’s Red List of Threatened Species (version 2.3) because of the side effects of fishing activity by humans, its size (which closely matches the size of a human baby), and its high intelligence level and communication abilities.

I Wanna Deliver a Dolphin… imagines a point in the future, where humans will help this species by the advanced technology of synthetic biology. A ‘dolp-human placenta’ that allows a human female to deliver a dolphin is created, and thus humans can become a surrogate mother to endangered species. Furthermore, gourmets would be able to enjoy the luxury of eating a rare animal: an animal made by their own body, raising questions of the ownership of rare animal life, and life itself.

Artist's Statement

This project is about growing your own food in your uterus with the help of synthetic biology technology. Humans always take from nature, but this time they try to donate their reproductive resources. This could be seen as win-win relationship, since the animal embryo held in the woman’s uterus also consoles the woman’s unsatisfied reproduction desire if, for example, the woman believes that having more human babies is not ethically sound, given the overpopulation of the earth. Also, they might be able to eat this expensive delicacy after the end of these rare animals’ natural lives. On the other hand, if they release them to nature, they will be investing in the future food supply. This point, however, will give rise to the same issues as the release of GM life forms into the wild.

[mlizzy]

Whaaatt?! Never would happen in a million years, though, right? Right?

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[ArtDodger]

Dophin? or maybe they wanted to deliver a Dauphin....

[BCW]

They will advance this idea - but killing hundreds of HUMAN babies a day doesn’t even garner attention from the scientific community...and it’s man’s fault the planet is warning....has nothign to do with that nearby star we call the Sun....beyond goofy....

[Louis Foxwell]

All this is done with no tongue in cheek and a sincere desire to examine moral issues. In fact it is a glib attempt to be outrageous. No doubt there are a host of animal conscious women who would leap at the chance.

[lonestar]

Surely these people work in the Obama administration.

[BenLurkin]

“We are living in the age of insanity.” - George Putnam.

[jmcenanly]

Does she realize that a newborn baby bottle-nose dolphin weighs between 22 and 44 pounds? At most, that would be like delivering a kindergartener. And she’d have to do it underwater, and once the delivery is over, she’d have to push it to the surface so that it could breathe. She should think more carefully about what she wishes for.

[Rodamala]

Oh this has lovely possibilities...

[kindred]

[This project approaches the problem of human reproduction in an age of overcrowding, overdevelopment and environmental crisis.]

This is an argument for eugenics and will continue to grow under the evil left wing monstrous devilish government school systems who desire to murder most of the human race.
It truly amazes me how foolish and gullible so called educated and informed people aren't. And the brainwashing they have received in the government indoctrination systems has only increased their ignorance. Worst of all, it has been planned by people in positions of power who lie, steal and murder regularly and every day strive to undermine our once great nation and bring Americans into slavery.

1. Human reproduction has filled the face of the earth with cities indeed, nevertheless, they could quadruple them and still have room for all. The disinformation of children in the scum government school system is tragic beyond words.
2. The so called enviormental crisis is but one of many manufactured lies the elitists Marxist bureaucrats have used to brain wash all children worldwide and here in America and has created nothing less then the same snakebit children and their foolish parents which enables the left to create a new generation of browniest national socialists (aka Nazis, the German word for the national leftist party); wherein the monster Hitler, a fool who spouted lies that people believed and thereby deceived and who killed millions of innocents who did nothing to deserve it. This sickness is in America big time and will result in the death of millions under the regime that is being created in DC and supported by the most evil of todays American citizens, the raging left.

[SC_Pete]

It’s already been done: Stanley Ann Dunham birthed a reptile.

http://theconservativetreehouse.com/2012/06/20/oh-my-ann-dunham-pictures-surface-president-barack-obamas-mom/

[Anton.Rutter]

It`s a waste to even think of something so ridiculous when a our resources need to be dedicated right now to gene therapy, so I can become an immortal weretiger.

[mlizzy]

“We are living in the age of insanity.” - George Putnam.

It gets where you don't even know what's satire or not. Insanity indeed!

[mlizzy]

Oh this has lovely possibilities...

Wow, what a picture!

[Tucker39]

Our only hope, as these sick, twisted ideas continue to multiply, is the return of The Lord Jesus Christ, the Creator of it all, Who will bring these kinds of idiotic schemes to a screeching halt.

[mlizzy]

Amen!