For Emilia de las Carreras, the Ebenböckhaus Residency was a chance to engage in new collaborations, both with her fellow residents and with local practitioners, expanding the materials and media with which she worked.  During her residency in Munich, De las Carreras began experimenting with metal through a site visit to the construction company PERI and her membership at Makerspace, where she produced the bases for the sculptures presented in the exhibition Ways of Knowing Otherwise with fellow resident Fátima Rodrigo.

De las Carreras gave a talk titled An Organized Form of Curiosity to students of Prof. Alexandra Pirici at the Academy of Arts, in which she shared her process for transforming street debris into suspended sculptures, exploring memory, fragility, and resilience. She also described her shift toward collaborative, community-based practice, using recycled materials and art-health programs to create spaces of care and collective resilience, following her personal experience with scoliosis and an internal prosthesis.

During the residency’s Open Studio event,  De las Carreras showcased drawings done with her feet and new sculptures, continuing her ongoing series Catalogue for Mythological Prostheses of Organisms in Mutation. She also collaborated with local artist Daniel Door on a sound performance and installation, presented at the Open Studio.

This residency was developed in collaboration with the Department of Art and Culture of the city of Munich, in partnership with Era Foundation. Makerspace awarded a grant to the resident to work at their workshops.