Life Disrupted and Regenerated: Coping With the ‘New Normal’ Creative Arts in the Time of Coronavirus

A global pandemic caused by COVID-19 virus since December 2019 has developed into a fearsome situation more than any common contagion. In combating worldwide, governments instigated precautionary cordon sanitaire in various degrees. Live music, cinema and film festivals were inevitably cancelled, causing artists to become alienated from their audience. This paper aims illuminate how practitioners of the creative industry cope with drastic disruption due outbreak as well means regenerating ‘life’, which refers that artist narrower sense, broader sense. Adopting combined methodology autoethnography virtual ethnography, authors explore encounters informants development arts scene. The subject regeneration is approached through feasible methods tools they could render this unique lived experience. They hope construct view containing some perspectives on transcendence survival pandemic’s impact, would persevere ‘new normal’ post-COVID-19 era.