Areas of interest
Redress and reconciliation.
Education
- MA, Urban Studies, Simon Fraser University
- MA, Communications, Simon Fraser University
- PGCert, Media Arts, Capilano University
Biography
Irwin Oostindie is a Dutch settler, media artist, curator, and researcher. He holds an MA in Urban Studies with a praxis of place-based redress of unceded lands claimed by the university, and an MA in Communications from SFU for his research into how reconciliation functions as spectacle. Irwin has a Post-Graduate Certificate in Media Arts from Capilano University, where his touring gallery and film festival project 'Axis to Grind' examined the role of spectacle in the DPRK. Previously, Irwin cocreated Canada's largest annual political arts festival, Under the Volcano, which ran for two decades and promoted intersectionality and accomplice work with Indigenous Peoples. He has worked in both the grassroots, NGO sector, and with settler and Indigenous governments. Irwin also serves as President of the Wild Bird Trust of BC, which promotes landback in the conservation sector.