Tο ΚΟΙΝΩΝΩ — The Tinos Gathering presents in Tinos REBUILT FOR FLIGHT, a five-day program dedicated to the island's dovecotes and the landscape shaped around them.
In its tenth year on Tinos, the organization develops a network of actions/works at different points across the island, bringing contemporary art, music, performances, installations, screenings, workshops, tours, research, and public discussions into dialogue. Artists, researchers, architects, residents, dovecote owners, farmers, and local bodies gather around a shared question “How can a landscape that was shaped through specific relationships and functions acquire new forms of care and activation today?”.
The theme REBUILT FOR FLIGHT starts from a literal condition: The dovecote is an architecture made for flight. Designed for the entry, stay, and exit of pigeons, it was at the same time part of a broader agricultural and social system, linked to cultivation, fertilization, production, and everyday life. Dovecotes weren't created as monuments; they were active infrastructures of a productive landscape.
Today, many have lost their original function. REBUILT FOR FLIGHT doesn't seek a return to an idealized past, but examines how these structures can be read, documented, cared for, and reactivated in the present. For five days, the same question is approached through different practices and temporalities: Tours of the dovecotes and the agricultural landscape, exhibitions and archival material, workshops, musical and sound performances, installations, screenings, symposia, and open meetings.
PROGRAM
THURSDAY 27 AUGUST
KOINONO GARDEN — CHORA
Karlou Vitali 5
21:30–22:30 | CHLOROSYNTHESIS
Sound installation & live performance
A sound installation and live performance that connects the Garden's fig tree to a modular synthesizer system, creating a poetic dialogue between nature, sound, and technology.
22:30 | OPENING PARTY — KOINONO 2016–2026
An open gathering to launch the festival and KOINONO's ten years. Program presentation follows
FRIDAY 28 AUGUST
KOINONO GARDEN — CHORA
Karlou Vitali 5
20:00–21:30 | CALM DOWN — LOST CHILDHOOD TAPES Elisa Irini Vidalis
An afternoon–evening ambient performance in the KOINONO Garden, based on the new album Lost Childhood Tapes. Minimalist piano, memory, and melodies from childhood meet the natural transition from afternoon light into night.
Limited capacity: 40 people.
SATURDAY 29 AUGUST TARAMPADOS, 18.30 - 23.00
A day dedicated to Tinos' dovecotes, through a tour, a participatory performance, an open symposium, and music.
18:30–19:30 | TOUR / GUIDED VISIT TO THE DOVECOTES
A walk through the landscape and the dovecotes of Tarampados, looking 51 years back into the history of their restoration. Historical reference by Giannis Psaltis, President of the 'Friends of the Green' association, and a tour led by Sofia Andrioti.
19.30-20.00 LA LLAMADA (THE CALL) | PARTICIPATORY PERFORMANCE Presented by Daniel Dominguez Teruel
Presentation of the installation, a roaming 'Dove Choir'
The result of the participatory workshop La Llamada (The Call) is presented in Tarampados as a collective roaming 'Dove Choir' that moves through the landscape and around the dovecotes. Voices spread across the valley and the action culminates with the raising of a bird eight meters high.
20.00–21:30 | SYMPOSIUM ON DOVECOTES
A large, shared table of discussion about the past, present, and future of Tinos' dovecotes. Local authorities, architects, cultural managers,
archaeologists, researchers, artists, owners, residents, and local associations meet to exchange knowledge, experiences, and proposals.
The Symposium functions as an open call for participation and dialogue and is addressed to everyone: residents, dovecote owners, professionals, researchers, creators, local bodies, as well as anyone who wishes to share an experience, knowledge, personal testimony, or proposal about the present and future of Tinos' dovecotes. Those who wish to speak actively in the discussion can optionally state their interest by filling out the form here.
21:30 | ARIADNE REDUX |Dimitris Papadatos Jay Glass Dubs. LIVE PERFORMANCE
A sound work in ten acts for voices, piano, modular synthesizer, and objects. Taking the local myth of the Burnt Cave / Fly Cave and its link to the myth of Ariadne as a starting point, the performance unfolds within the natural transition from dusk to darkness.
LIVE MUSIC 22.00 Periklis Papapetropoulos — Constantinopolitan laouto
SUNDAY 30 AUGUST Agapi village,12.00 -14.00
11:30 | MEETING AT THE VILLAGE SQUARE
12:00–13:00 | PARTICIPATORY ARCHITECTURAL HISTORY WORKSHOP Konstantina Markoglou — HeritAgent
A participatory workshop that approaches architectural history through collective observation, storytelling, and relationship with the landscape.
13:00–14:00 | REBUILT FOR FLIGHT — INTERNATIONAL ART RESIDENCY 2026–2027
Presentation of KOINONO's new international residency program and the Open Calls for curators / mentors, artists and creators, as well as for dovecote owners who wish to participate in the new network of artistic research and production on Tinos.
NURSERY — CHORA TINOS
Headquarters of the 'Friends of the Green'
19:30–21:30 | CHILDREN'S EXHIBITION — GIVING THE DOVECOTES NEW USES
Children of Tinos paint and imagine new uses for the dovecotes, turning structures of the past through their gaze into spaces of imagination, encounter, and new possibilities.
21:30 | BETWEEN SOIL AND SIGNAL Stratos Bichakis
Music & Video Performance / Installation — 40’
A music and visual performance/installation that revisits the atmosphere of oral tradition and sung poetry through a contemporary, non-narrative form. Sound, image, and the natural environment create a field of collective and individual imagination around creation, nature, and desire.
MONDAY 31 AUGUST
KOINONO GARDEN — CHORA
Karlou Vitali 5
21:00 | CLOSING GATHERING
The KOINONO Festival 2026 concludes in the Garden with an open gathering for all, wines from Cantina Analogue and screenings of archival audiovisual material from past KOINONO actions. The evening functions both as the festival's closing and as a passage into the next phase of the REBUILT FOR FLIGHT International Art Residency 2026–2027, which will continue with the Open Calls and the presence of artists on Tinos in 2027.
IN PARALLEL WITH THE PROGRAM
TINOS DOVECOTES PLATFORM
Within the framework of the festival, the Tinos Dovecotes Platform is presented, the digital platform for mapping, recording, and documenting Tinos' dovecotes. Cartographic and photographic material, audiovisual recordings, field research, and digital tools connect into an open and evolving archive, designed as a tool for knowledge and participation.
Its development takes place within the framework of the project CODE21: The Dovecotes of the Cyclades in the 21st Century, with funding from the Cycladic Identity initiative of the
Museum of Cycladic Art. You can explore it by clicking here.
WORKSHOPS
Sunday 30 August 12.00- 13.00, Agapi village (square)
Participatory architectural workshop on Dovecotes Sunday, 30 August by Konstantina Markoglou PhD Candidate, School of Architectural Engineering, NTUA Archaeologist | MA Monument Management, NKUA HERITAGENT.COM
2.Thursday 18.00-19.30 and Friday 12.00-14.00 KOINONO Garden Collective 'Dove Choir' up to 20 people for the musical litany in Tarampados, on Saturday, 29 August, by the musician and visual artist Daniel Dominguez
3.Presentation of children's workshop If the Dovecotes 'lived' now, what would they be By children of Tinos, presentation of their works. You can see more information on the site, of KOINONO.
KOINONO FESTIVAL 2026 is held under the auspices and with the support of the Ministry of Culture and the Municipality of Tinos, with the support of Cycladic Identity – Museum of Cycladic Art, within the framework of the CODE21 program, and for environmental actions by the Cyclades Preservation organization. In collaboration with the island's local bodies and associations, with the support of Aegeas AMKE, The Friends of the Green of Tinos and Cantina Analogue, as well as the transportation sponsors SeaJets.
REBUILT FOR FLIGHT — INTERNATIONAL ART RESIDENCY 2026–2027
During the festival, the new cycle of the International Art Residency is also presented, connecting contemporary artistic creation with the dovecotes and the landscape of Tinos and opening a new cycle of collaborations with creators, curators, mentors, and dovecote owners.
KOINONO — The Tinos Gathering
is an independent cultural organization based on Tinos, which since 2016 has been developing programs of contemporary art, culture, and research
in direct relation to the island's natural and cultural landscape. Through
site-specific works, exhibitions, residencies, performances, music, workshops, walks, and research programs, it creates encounters between creators from different fields, the local community, and the landscape itself.
2026 marks ten years of KOINONO's continuous presence on Tinos and the beginning of a new cycle of actions around the landscape, contemporary creation, and the possibilities of new forms of collective activation.
Information
Christos Artemis Artistic Director / Founder of KOINONO
27–31 AUGUST 2026 | TINOS KOINONO — THE TINOS GATHERING 2016–2026
FREE ADMISSION TO THE EVENTS
Full Program · Workshops · Locations: www.kinono.gr
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