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Alan

Abstract
Today, Colombia is the third-largest recipient of military aid from the United States and is at a critical juncture in its turbulent history. More than three million people have been displaced in Colombia during the past decade alone, and violent deaths and kidnappings remain alarmingly high. While violence is nothing new to the people of Colombia, their response to its sources and causes have been portrayed in the aesthetics arts in various ways over the years, with one of the most recent manifestations of this being The Skin of Memory, developed by the anthropologist Pilar Riano-Alcala and the artist Suzanne Lacy in collaboration with a multidiscipliary team in Colombia. Because art must also serve a social function and civic responsibility, this thesis evaluates the social role of art such as The Skin of Memory and other works in the problem of violence in Colombia, as an active element, witness, interpreter and mediator, and the relationship between artists and social circumstances in Colombia. To this end, a review of the relevant peer-reviewed and scholarly literature concerning the phases of violence experienced by Colombia over the past several decades is followed by a series of case studies of

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