Florian Göttke is a visual artist, researcher, writer, and educator. He investigates the functioning of public images and their relationship to social memory and politics, combining visual modes of research (collecting, close reading, and image montage) with academic research. Göttke received his PhD at the Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis at the University of Amsterdam about the peculiar practice to hang or burn effigies—scarecrow-like puppets representing politicians—as a form of political protest. His dissertation entitled “Burning Images: Performing Effigies as Political Protest” combines two discursive narratives: a linear text and a parallel assemblage of images. Image narrative and text are like the two voices in a musical composition, each in turn taking the lead to introduce themes, structure the work, direct the reader, halt the attention or accelerate the flow. The dissertation has been published under the title Burning Images: A History of Effigy Protests by the Amsterdam publisher Valiz in September 2021. He teaches at the Art History department about Artistic Research, Art and Activism, and Contemporary Art.