Started January 2010 [by Jack Thurgar]

This is a scrapbook dedicated to the study of London's weeds and the wild places where they grow. Wildcornerz also looks at the languages, cultures and mythologies that develop in these cracks.


What is a Wildcorner?

A Wildcorner is a term referring to a piece of land that has been left to grow wild in a man made landscape. To be a true Wildcorner, the land has to be restricted from public access. Many are hidden from public view altogether. A common type of wildcorner is referred to by govements and local authorities as a 'brownfield site'.

Wildcorners and corridors* are dotted all over the capital and vary in content, depending on their location and history. In this blog we focus particularly on the Wildcorners of south east London.

* Wildcorridors are networks of pathways that run through the city and facilitate the propagation and growth of weeds. Many are restricted from public access such as railway embankments and urban rivers. In the suburbs, footpaths such as the Green Chain connect public green areas by a network of alleyways and passages that skirt between houses and private land. It could be argued that these are also wild corridors.



Urban and Suburban Weeds

By the term 'weeds' we are of course referring to the cities wild plants and flowers. But their are also two other weeds that grow in the city.

'Graf' like its botanical relation, has many families and strains. Both of these weeds can often be found together, sharing many qualities including their adaptive nature and unregulated status. Both in many cases, originally entered and populated the city using the railway network.

Another 'weed' that historically flourishes in London is invisible and uses the tops of tower blocks to propagate. Pirate radio like its weed relatives, grows away from the public eye and is constantly adapting to exploit these same gaps across the cities FM radio spectrum, fighting and flourishing in-between the commercial stations.

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Sunday, 24 July 2011

The Fire Mix [six sacred weeds]

artfridge: LONDON: JACK THURGAR'S WILD SUMMER SOLSTICE RITUAL...: "These are two hypnotizing videos that I took last Friday from Jack Thurgar's performance 'The Fire Mix [Six Sacred Weeds]' at the Glory ..."
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Friday, 22 July 2011

dark n cold classic freestlyes 1


Uk hiphop legend Skeme from Deptford with big Big P of Peks. This was on number two of the classic 'Dark n Cold untapped' freestlye videos. Theses bits are all muffled and fuzzy from repeated rinsing. Still sounds sick and fresh. These two represent the missing link, to some extent, in the development of uk urban music. Skeme particularly is an older from south east london and was raised from a youth in the legendary Saxon sound. Which featured many Ragga stars such as Tippa Irea and Papa Levi, who were an early influence to Skemes mic Stlye. Skeme was born in the hiphip generation and worked within the uk hiphop scene of the late nighties and early nauties. As an older now, Skeme works as mentor to young Grime Mcs including the likes of Jammer, Little D and P Money.
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