Ep 1 - How it started | Unpacking the Universe: The Making of an Exhibition

This episode takes you to the Gold Museum in Bogotá and Ciudad Perdida–Colombia’s most spectacular archaeological site and shares how the main characters of this series, Diana Magaloni and Julia Burtenshaw, started on this journey to understand the indigenous art of Ancient Colombia better. About the documentary video series Unpacking the Universe: The Making of an Exhibition is a documentary series that follows the six-year journey of LACMA’s curators Diana Magaloni and Julia Burtenshaw researching, developing, and installing The Portable Universe / El Universo en tus Manos. The series allows us to be transparent about how the team facilitated a collaborative process with the Arhuaco community in Colombia and curators at different institutions and kept this spirit of collaboration alive in the way the exhibition was installed. Among many topics, the documentary features scenes of breathtaking landscapes and archeological sites; conversations with Mamo Camilo Izquierdo and Jaison Perez Vill