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This exhibition, titled "BABE, YOU TASTE LIKE WATER", marks the second performative experiment in a series of three within the doctoral artistic research project MONSTER SINGS (MONŠTRUM SPIEVA). The installation functions as an intermedial laboratory, translating somatic and vocal research into a tangible spatial environment. The exhibition presents a curated constellation of research artifacts: original scripts, short films documenting the performative process, and a collection of objects—both found and specifically fabricated for the experiment. These elements collectively explore the "trans voice" as a site of resistance against normative pressures of vocal stability and gendered legibility. By utilizing Dvořák’s Rusalka as a metaphorical framework, the work subverts the traditional operatic trope of the "voiceless tragic heroine," reimagining transition instead as a generative state of fluid abundance and playful monstrosity. The project highlights the concept of trans aurality, focusing on the "invisible" dimensions of the operatic apparatus: the rehearsal, the cracked note, and the somatic residue of the performer’s labor. Through this synthesis of visual, textual, and physical media, the research situates the act of singing as a radical survival strategy and a method of world-making for voices that exist outside the institutional canon.