ABSTRACT
In the final chapter, water is reinstated as one of the most important materials of our time, as are the poetic and political intentions and possibilities of water in the Hydrocene. The chapter summarises the ways the planetary hydrological cycle is breaking and how urgent it is to garner new approaches for respecting and thinking with water as a being with agency and forms of knowledge. The book concludes with an understanding of ways to learn from hydro-artistic methods towards climate justice in coalition with the new wave of artistic and curatorial practice that has reconfigured the possibilities of water within eco-aesthetics. This expansion of form and method can be understood as directly linked to a greater understanding – culturally, socially and politically – of the growing urgency of realigning human–water relations in achieving climate justice.
