ARTIFACTING: A Collaborative Storytelling Workshop
ARTIFACTING:
A collaborative storytelling workshop
w/ Ríon Duffy Murphy
How do we understand a place which is unknown to us, but strangely familiar? Start with a peculiar spoon (or hat, or chair, or record player, or rock, or hen house-) and wander outwards from there.
In this workshop we will become visitors to the fictional island of Inis Eile. Using a system similar to solo tabletop role playing games, we will discover artifacts on the island, tell stories about them together, and decide how they shape the history and culture of the island.
Participants will be provided with ARTIFACTING zines and guided through using them together. You don’t need any previous experience in TTRPGs, writing, or storytelling - just curiosity and a desire to play.
Details
Wed 24th Nov | 6:30pm - 8:30pm
10 participants
Tiered Tickets: €5.00 - €15.00
Book: https://a4sounds.org/shop/artifacting/
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ARTIFACTING:
A zine
2026
Inis Eile is a socially engaged, participatory project, exploring Irish national identity, collective myth-making, and utopian dreaming. The island acts as a mirror of Ireland, and a testing ground for speculative futures. Its history and culture are constructed together by the artist and members of the public, through collaborative storytelling, play and discussion based workshops, and other interactions.
Copies of the zine will be available at the gallery for audiences to take home.
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Ríon Duffy Murphy
Ríon Duffy Murphy (they/them) is a visual artist specialising in textiles. Their work explores queerness, play, belonging, and disability. Creating opportunities for dialogue, curiosity, softness, and connection is key to their practice.
Ríon's recent textile work consists of interactive human-scale soft sculptures, intended to provide positive sensory input and to disrupt the usual choreography of gallery visitors. They are in the process of developing Inis Eile, a socially engaged, participatory project exploring Irish national identity, speculative futures, and collective utopian dreaming through collaborative storytelling and discussion-based workshops.
Ríon holds a BFA in Textiles from NCAD and an MA in Gender Studies from UCD. They were awarded the Arts Council Agility Award in 2023, Create’s AIC Mentoring Award in 2024, and a residency in GOMA, Waterford in 2026. Their solo exhibition, SQUISHY!, was held in the Project Arts Centre as part of Disrupt Disability Arts Festival 2025.
Exhibition Profile: https://www.weonlywantthe.earth/born-to-be-alive/ron-duffy-murphy