The “unfixability” of meaning and the impossibility of representation are at the heart of Turlough Swim. The encounter is a philosophical attempt at dissolving notions of self. The research moves away from any sense of a cohesive ‘story’ or document which speaks of place in an objective sense. My approach as the swimmer/night-walker attempts to reflect on the ‘unrepresentability’ of the place and concerns itself with the central restlessness which is at the heart of the research enquiry and the failure to fix definition.
