The first new record by Zero Kama released since their 2008 live album! During these 16 years Zoe Dewitt was active with book publishing, Zero Kama and Korpses Katatonic reissues, lectures, scientific research, exhibitions, and rare but bright live shows.

"What is a Body?" is an electroacoustic symphony in five movements which was created as background music for Dewitt's philosophical lecture performance of the same title, realised at the anatomical theatre of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna on 19th November 2015. It has been composed by re-arranging vocal and instrumental samples from Zero Kama's album "The Secret Eye of L.A.Y.L.A.H.", recorded in 1984 by solely using self-built instruments made from human bones and skulls. Dark ritual music with transcendent drones and tribal parts. 

During the performance Zoe Dewitt lay motionless on the marble autopsy table in the centre of the theatre, while the spoken text of the lecture was provided by a video projection showing macro shots of body landscapes blended with dance movements in slow motion. The text of the lecture explored philosophical conceptions of the body in a general sense, i.e. comprising both bodies of living beings and physical objects from celestial bodies to elementary particles, ranging from ancient Greek and contemporary philosophies to notions from classical and modern physics.

While, in a conventional sense, the body is understood as a spatial entity separated from its environment by a definite boundary, it can alternatively also be described - similar to quantum field theory - as a field that extends endlessly into its environment - just as the shining of a star radiates into the most distant depths of the universe (and only becomes recognizable when its light touches another body’s surface).

Remixed and remastered by Zoe Dewitt 2023. Black Vinyl - presented with a large 8-page booklet about the record conception and the lecture by Zoe Dewitt. Ltd x 300 copies with cover photo by Petra Sperlhofer, and further images captured from the video material recording during the performance.