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Laura Victoria Albert (born November 2, 1965) is the author of writings that include works credited to the literary persona JT LeRoy, whom Albert described as an "avatar", saying she was able to write things as LeRoy that she could not have said as Laura Albert. Albert was born and raised in Brooklyn. She has also used the names Emily Frasier and Speedie, and published other works as Laura Victoria and Gluttenberg. ==Writing and other activities== Laura Albert published the JT LeRoy books – ''Sarah'''' ''(2000),'' The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things'' (2001), and ''Harold's End'' (2004) – as "fiction," not as "memoir." She attests that she could not have written from raw emotion without the right to be presented to the world via JT LeRoy, whom she calls her "phantom limb," according to a 2006 interview in (the Paris Review ). "Looking back, Laura Albert anticipated just about all of it," commented author Adam Langer. "Long before we had split our personas into the lives we truly live and the ones that we choose to create on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and everywhere else, Albert created her own avatar."〔Langer, Adam (August 2013). "(Laura Albert )" Interview Magazine.〕 Another commentator insisted, "Albert had ingeniously hacked the literary establishment."〔http://corp.lastlookapp.com/posts/five-questions-for-laura-albert/?utm_content=buffer6f9af&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer〕 Albert later told the San Francisco Bay Guardian, "For me it was created the way an oyster creates a pearl: out of irritation and suffering. It was an attempt to try to heal something. And it actually worked, and it did so for a lot of other people. The amazing thing is, now I can be available to people. () It's OK with me if someone doesn't like my writing. But they shouldn't try to tell me how I'm obliged to present my work."〔Eddy, Cheryl (June 26, 2013). "Still Beating" San Francisco Bay Guardian.〕 When asked about the notion of having fooled people by writing as JT LeRoy, Albert stated, "No audience for any work of art needs to worry about being fooled. Art is the opportunity to change the way you think, which means you can never be fooled – you either have that experience or you don't."〔http://corp.lastlookapp.com/posts/five-questions-for-laura-albert/?utm_content=buffer6f9af&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer〕 In November 2010, Laura Albert appeared at The Moth to tell (her story on video ). For a recent screening of actress/director Asia Argento's film adaptation ''The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things'' (2004), Albert presented video of her Skype conversation with Argento, in which the filmmaker declared, "I'm so proud of this movie, and it's the best thing I've ever done. And I'm blessed to have read that book and to have met you and to have done this movie. Blessed. () And I'm so proud of you for everything you've done. You were bold to choose the path that you did. You're a real artist, Laura." Laura Albert wrote "Dreams of Levitation," Sharif Hamza's short film for NOWNESS, and has also written for the acclaimed television series ''Deadwood''. The film "Radiance," which she also wrote, was made an Official Selection of the 2015 Bokeh South African International Fashion Film Festival. She collaborated with director and playwright Robert Wilson for the international exhibition of his VOOM video portraits, and with the catalog for his "Frontiers: Visions of the Frontier" at Institut Valencià d'Art Modern (IVAM). In 2012 she served on the juries of the first Brasilia International Film Festival and the Sapporo International Short Film Festival; she also attended Brazil's international book fair, Bienal Brasil do Livro e da Leitura, where she and Alice Walker were the U.S. representatives. Brazil's Geração Editorial has re-released the JT LeRoy books in a boxset under Laura Albert's name, and she and JT are the subjects of the hit Brazilian rock musical JT, Um Conto de Fadas Punk ("JT, A Punk Fairy Tale"). On March 11, 2014, the San Francisco Chronicle reported〔http://www.sfgate.com/entertainment/garchik/article/Long-lost-Ukrainian-uncle-has-left-you-5-million-5304867.php〕 that the Academy of Friends Oscar Party in San Francisco invited JT LeRoy – played by gender-fluid fashion model Rain Dove Dubilewski – to walk the runway〔https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jGd-Czhqk6I〕 as part of its HIV/AIDS fundraiser. Writing about having curated a recent photographic exhibition that included Mary Ellen Mark's 2001 portrait of JT LeRoy for Vanity Fair magazine, Chuck Mobley of San Francisco Camerawork insisted, "There were a lot of moral judgments being made (by educated people who should know better) that were exhausting and simplistic. () The grievances aired seemed petty and obscured a far more fascinating and intellectually stimulating story."〔http://ashadedviewonfashion.com/blog/laura-albert-mary-ellen-marks-portrait-jt-leroy-sf-camerawork〕 She has taught at Dave Eggers' 826 Valencia and the California College of the Arts in San Francisco, and has lectured with artist Jasmin Lim at Artists' Television Access with SF Camerawork's Chuck Mobley, in conjunction with a window installation about her work. A spokeswoman for the successful "Heart for Eye" campaign to raise funds for eye surgery for children, Laura Albert hosted a television segment and was both an interviewee and an interviewer of inspirational women such as Anastasia Barbieri and Anh Duong. She was photographed by Steven Klein for ''QVEST'' magazine and by Kai Regan for his "Reckless Endangerment" at ALIFE; she has also done fashion shoots for Christian Lacroix and John Galliano. Laura Albert profiled Juergen Teller for the 2003 Citibank Photography Prize catalogue; and published her reminiscence of Lou Reed in The Forward. She was a catalog contributor for the "Blind Cut" exhibition at New York's Marlborough Chelsea and collaborated with Williamsburg band Japanther, releasing a limited-edition cassette under the name ''True Love in a Large Room'', with original artwork by Winston Smith. She has also written for dot429, the world's largest LGBTA professional network, and been an invited speaker at their annual conferences in New York. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Laura Albert」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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