some times zero hours

Gonçalo Lamas’ some times zero hours is a something of a ‘common place’, through the perils and preciousness of London living seen from the vantage-point of pandemic time; the continual crisis at present as the subtended contemporary arcs through the plenum we call social life. Drifting through digitally-mediated urban environs, prosodically and metonymically, through states of anxiety, irony, distaste and waywardness, the corporate capture of the everyday resisted and retold in spates of bodily motion and semantic resignification. We move together in Lamas’ foretelling assembly.

– Kashif Sharma-Patel

A black sneaker on the sidewalk, on the right. On the left, a footprint on the concrete from a similar shoe size.

An accordion of McDonald's £1.99 vouchers which used to come on the back of Oyster card receipts or on the pages of the Metro newspaper.

On the floor of a London bus, a ripped bit of a page from a newspaper where one can read: EDEN OUT THE DOOR.

A coin jammed inside that rubbery line by the bus window.

'some times zero hours', A5 pamphlet, 40pp, edited by SPAM Press, May 2022.

Cover design by Maria Sledmere.