Garden Cocktail Workshop with Gökay Atabek
Participants need to be 18+
In this workshop, we will learn how to make cocktails, from a basic martini to your own conceptual one. Led by artist and cocktail enthusiast, Gökay Atabek.
The workshop will cover:
-a cultural, technical, and historical introduction to different alcohol, tools and glassware
-a simple martini recipe
-foraging for ingredients from the garden
-Essence making inspired by old medicine making techniques (with leaves, teas or dried petals) -Make maceration jar (extracting flavour compounds through steeping in alcohol)
-Make a drink from the essence
Participants need to bring:
Mandatory:
–pen and paper
–A cocktail kit like this one -and a tea strainer like this one
Optional:
-own dry ingredients that you want to extract flavours from
-Any extra jars you might have lying around (1 jar more than half a liter)
All alcoholic materials and some dry materials will be provided by iii.
Gökay Atabek is an artist and researcher who, albeit unwillingly, has been appointed the representee, accountant, webmaster, and production manager of Vølksamt! – a de-facto art collective that deals with intermedia art.
Prior to his appointment as local representative, Atabek has been working with computer and new media art (a name he finds abrasively stupid at the time of this writing). After an adventure starting in his bedroom with a Big Muff Pi, he developed competence in electronics, which he nowadays uses to assist and advise Vølksamt! Currently, he is delving into practices such as publishing, blue- collar labor, and mixology. He works and swims at de Besturing.
Experimental Cocktail Workshop with Gökay Atabek is presented by iii with financial support from Creative Industries Fund NL and The Municipality of The Hague.
