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Absolvierende der Kunstakademie Düsseldorf 2021 – 2022

2023, Akademie-Galerie Neu Sammlung, Düsseldorf, Germany

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Spring Performer

2023, Marburger Kunstverein, Marburg, Germany

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Zeitenwende

2023, Forum Kunst & Architektur Essen, Germany

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HEIMAT: Erinnerung an die Zukunft

2022, Graduation presentation, Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, Germany

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X11

2021, SITTart Galerie, Verein der Düsseldorfer Künstler*innen, Düsseldorf, Germany

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Tag des offenen Denkmals

2018, Kaiser & Dicke Fabrik, Wuppertal, Germany

Presentations:

05. 2023 / Linguistic and poetic features of Yue poems in 17th century Guangxi, evidence from a newly discovered trilingual collection at the 32nd Annual Meeting of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society (SEALS32). Download: Slides.

11. 2022 / Linguistic and poetic features of Yue poems in 17th century Guiping at the 26th International Conference on Yue Dialects. Download: Abstract; Slides.

Participate in the Projects:

• Jyutdict: A pan-Cantonese dictionary collected a wide range of data on dialectical phonology, vocabulary and possible cognates. (Permanently updating.)
• Extended Jyutping Scheme: An extended romanisation scheme for pan-Cantonese based on LSHK Jyutping.
• Mozilla Common Voice Yue: Publicly available voice data of Cantonese built up by volunteers.
• CanCLID: Cantonese Computational Linguistics Infrastructure Development Workgroup.

For any questions, interests or commission, you are welcome to send me message:

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Impressum

Patía Zingji Lau
Friedrich-Engels-Allee 161a, 42285 Wuppertal
Email: info [at] patialau.com

Patía is an artist, writer and linguist, based in Düsseldorf / Wuppertal, Germany.

She hails from a Cantonese family in the Gvangjsih Autonomous Region of South China, a tropical area rich in ethnic and language diversity. From 2015 to 2022, she studied at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf (Düsseldorf Art Academy), Germany. 2019 she was nominated by professor Herbert Brandl as Meisterschülerin. 2022 she graduated from the academy, of the class of professor Sabrina Fritsch.

In addition to her visual art, the artist also writes poetry and stories, translates various materials into her native languages. As a linguist, she collaborates with colleagues on projects such as language preservation, revitalisation and normalisation.

CV:

2019 – 2022 / Studied at Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, with Prof. Sabrina Fritsch.

2016 – 2019 / Studied at Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, with Prof. Herbert Brandl, Meisterschülerin of Prof. Herbert Brandl.

2015 – 2016 / Studied at Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, Orientierungsbereich.

2007 – 2010 / Graphic design, college of vocational education Gvangjsih.

1989 / Born in Gvangjsih Autonomous Region, P.R.China.