DURHAM, NC.- The Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University presents Memorials of Identity, an exhibition of nine new media works from the Miami-based Rubell Family Collection by seven international artists. The exhibition will be on view Aug. 3 through Oct. 1.

The works, all DVD video projections, examine the impact of historical change on individual, cultural and national identity, and embody personal responses to national trauma and the effects of globalization.

Each video, less than 30 minutes long, will be on view as a continuous loop in separate screening spaces in one of the museum's main galleries.

The works include: "Sprawlville" (Sven Pahlsson, 2002, 13 minutes, color, sound, DVD projection); "Facing Forward" (Fiona Tan, 1999, 11 minutes, color, sound, DVD projection); "Intervista" (Anri Sala, 1998, 26 minutes, color, mono sound, DVD video projection); "Ubu Tells the Truth" (William Kentridge, 1997, 8 minutes, color, sound, DVD projection); "History of the Main Complaint" (William Kentridge, 1996, 5 minutes, color, sound, DVD projection); "Felix in Exile" (William Kentridge, 1994, 8 minutes, color, sound, DVD projection); "Memorial Project Nha Trang, Vietnam: Towards the Complex - For the Courageous, the Curious, and the Cowards" (Jun Nguyen-Hatsushiba, 2001, 13-minute, color, sound, DVD video projection); "Our Songbook" (Artur Zmijewski, 2003, 13 minutes, color, sound, DVD projection); and "Barbed Hula" (Sigalit Landau, 2001, 1 minute and 48 seconds, color, sound, DVD projection.)

"Memorials of Identity" was co-curated by Luisa Lagos and Mark Coetzee, director of The Rubell Family Collection. Seven of the nine works were on view in 2004 at the Art Gallery at Florida Gulf Coast University, then traveled to The Rubell Family Collection gallery in Miami and to the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. All nine works were on view at the Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico in Santurce, Puerto Rico, until June 11. After the Nasher Museum, the exhibition travels to the Haifa Museum of Art in Israel.

The Rubell Family Collection is one of the leading collections of contemporary art in the world and includes a research library with more than 30,000 volumes. The Rubells' extensive collection of work dating from the 1960s to the present is exhibited in a converted 45,000-square-foot warehouse in Miami. The collection began soon after Don and Mera Rubell were married in 1964. Their son, Jason, a 1991 Duke graduate, and their daughter, Jennifer, have joined their parents in expanding the collection.

Programs accompanying Memorials of Identity will include a conversation between Rubell Collection director Coetzee and Trevor Schoonmaker, the Nasher Museum's new curator of contemporary art, on Aug. 3; a talk with collectors Don, Mera and Jason Rubell on Sept. 14; public tours and a workshop for teachers.