Focusing on the concept of inclusion, Taşlıca Table uses archaeological methods and tools of contemporary art in exploring ways of knowledge exchange between scientists and locals. It is carried out in cooperation with the Phoenix Archaeological Project (PAP) which continues its work in Taşlıca village, Marmaris, Turkey. While providing a platform for community participation and interaction, it aims to gather local people, artists, and scientists around a table in its ancient sense, referring to a symposium or a feast for narrating, sharing, and discussing. Taşlıca Table tries to ensure that scientific data is transferred and understood by the community and seeks ways to mutually transfer local knowledge from local people to scientists through oral history and narratives. Thus, it aims to reveal the value of scientific knowledge as well as subaltern knowledge and to build structures that can learn from each other. Taşlıca Village is a special region where the rural lifestyle dating back to the 6th century BC has been observed uninterruptedly. With the economic crisis, the migration of the young population to the cities negatively affects the continuity of rural life. Public spaces, which begin to lose their function with the decrease in population, interrupt the transmission of collective memory. Taşlıca Table takes on a mobile design by moving to empty areas of the village that have been abandoned due to migration and giving these spaces a new function for workshops and meetings. The artists shape their work using all data from archaeological research as source material and mutually bring on the memory of the place, traditions, beliefs, meeting points, botanical assets, food culture, etc. by meeting locals of the region. The two kinds of knowledge blend in the workshops designed and facilitated by the artists and Taşlıca Table seeks to produce a third knowledge at the intersection of science and life experiences.

Keywords: community building, third knowledge, archaeology, contemporary arts, mobility