Interview Reinhard Bek on sound in artworks, online, 4 November 2021

The interview was conducted within the research “The sound of artworks:
Assessing sound in time-based media conservation”. To identify the issues
at stake with sound elements in time-based works of art, prominent time-
based media conservators were interviewed (Reinhard Bek of Bek &
Frohnert LLC, New York; Amy Brost of the Museum of Modern Art, New
York; Patricia Falcão and Jack McChonchie of Tate Modern, London; and
Flaminia Fortunato of the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam. And an artist-
Camilo Sandoval). Bek discusses the challenges he faces when installing artworks with sound in exhibition spaces [0:04:30.1]. He gives examples from his experience with artworks by Jean Tinguely [0:14:48.0]and discusses the use of recordings for re-installation of artworks that contain sound [0:23:45.3].