Live radio play

A live radio play about the astrophysicist Jocelyn Bell, who discovered an unusual signal in her data and through her careful observation and perseverance discovered a new type of celestial body: the pulsar.

Although she was actually looking for something else, the faint but perfectly periodic radio wave signal from the supernova remnant did not escape her attention. She even managed to convince her supervisor that she had not made a mistake in setting up the telescope and that it was not a simple interference signal. Even the more or less jokingly considered option of little green alien ‚men‘ was finally ruled out. All doubts were removed when she found another signal of this type in another part of the sky.

Seven years later he was awarded the Nobel Prize, she was not. It was clear to him that he was the captain of the ship and she was just a crew member. Reporters questioned her about her private life rather than her scientific findings.

In a live radio play, the personal exploration of Jocelyn Bell’s narration of her life story meets an abstracted sound model of the discovery of pulsars.

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And while you’re at it, it would be super nice if you could add this sentence to the end of my artist bio: „For the Floating Transmissions Festival, she developed a radio play in collaboration with Jacopo Asam, with whom she recently performed at ‚Alles ist schon da – Performing Urban Curating Now‘ and the ‚Klein und Haarig Festival‘.“ The full text would then be

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After completing her Master’s degree in Physics, Maren Stocklöw (*1994) moved to Hamburg to pursue her curiosity about the world through art. As a student of fine arts, she enjoys working with performance, spoken word, video and sound to find meaning in the ephemeral and to examine small interactions with what she perceives around her. She is particularly interested in the epistemology and social environments in which scientists and engineers find themselves, and the implications of these stereotypes for how our society functions. For the Floating Transmissions Festival, she developed a radio play in collaboration with Jacopo Asam, with whom she recently performed at ‚Alles ist schon da – Performing Urban Curating Now‘ and the ‚Klein und Haarig Festival‘.