L PACK.: Totes my GOATs

Ongoing

Type

Installation

Other

Venue: Nihonbashi/Bakurocho Area

Etoile Kaito Living Bldg.

1-15-15 Higashikanda, Chiyoda-ku

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Date: 10/17/2025 Fri. - 12/14 Sun.
11:30–18:00 (Fri until 19:00)
Closed on Mon and Tue
*Open Nov 3 (Nat’l hol.) and 24 (Subst. hol.).

Ticket: Ticket required

L PACK. is a duo formed by Susumu Odagiri and Tetsuya Nakajima, who were both born in 1984 and graduates of Shizuoka University of Art and Culture, where they majored in spatial design.
Their work traverses the fields of art, design, architecture, and folk crafts, with the aim of weaving themselves into the fabric of communities by adeptly improvising with a limited selection tools and local materials, under the conceptual starting point of “landscape with coffee.”

For this project, L PACK. will focus on tote bags, a familiar item at art festivals. When visiting an art festival, you’ll see many people wandering the streets with tote bags slung over their shoulders, bearing the festival’s name, theme, and key visual. The tote bag has become a staple companion for strolling through art festivals, and when festival-goers carrying these bags walk through the city, it naturally serves as publicity for the event. Moreover, while it can be obtained during certain extraordinary experiences, it is intended for everyday use after the event, making it an entity that exists between the extraordinary and the ordinary.

For this festival themed on “wandering,” L PACK. will create a space where tote bags, items that quietly support our art festivals, can gather from across regions. This will surely shed light on the evolution of festival themes and designs across different eras and locations. They invite visitors to enjoy the journey of the art festival through time and place mediated by the tote bag.

A related event, “Let’s Make a Unique Art Festival Tote Bag,” will also be held.

Special Cooperation: Etoile Kaito & Co., Inc.

Artists

Map

2 min walk from JR Sobu Line Bakurocho Sta. (Ex. 4)
6 min walk from Toei Shinjuku Line Bakuroyokoyama Sta. (Ex. A1)

Please note this is not the Etoile Kaito Product Department Building.

Related event

Workshop

L PACK. | Let's Make a Unique Art Festival Tote Bag

Workshops by L PACK. (Susumu Odagiri and Tetsuya Nakajima), biennale artists. The project “Totes my GOATs” by L PACK. collects tote bags sold at art festivals around the world and sheds light on the relationship between “art festivals (the extraordinary)” and “tote bags (the ordinary)” through their designs and backgrounds. In this workshop, participants will freely combine provided texts to create their own “original art festival,” which will then be printed onto tote bags using silk-screen printing. From designs that feel like they could actually exist to unique and unconventional creations, let’s collaborate to make a one-of-a-kind original art festival tote bag together. Notes We will prepare the tote bag body. Additional printing on brought-in materials is also possible.

Ended 10/19/2025 / Etoile Kaito Living Bldg.

Reference Image: Sadack & Kimberly, 2023, Saitama Triennale 2023. Photo by Nobutada Omote

Reference Image: The story was handed down from father to son, 2023, Art MARUKET 2023, Museum of Fine Arts, Gifu. Photo by L PACK.

Phot by Koichi Tanoue

L PACK.

L PACK. is a duo formed by Susumu Odagiri and Tetsuya Nakajima, who were both born in 1984 and graduates of Shizuoka University of Art and Culture, where they majored in spatial design. Their work traverses the fields of art, design, architecture, and folk crafts, with the aim of weaving themselves into the fabric of communities by adeptly improvising with a limited selection tools and local materials, and their conceptual starting point is “landscape with coffee.”

https://www.lpack.jp/

Participating Event

L PACK. | Let's Make a Unique Art Festival Tote Bag

Participating Project

L PACK.: Totes my GOATs

Nihonbashi/Bakurocho Area

Etoile Kaito Living Bldg.

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