Use Me Up
Exhaustion and the limits of the potential to perform

20/02/07

It's better to burn out than fade away. This adage of the bohemian artist has become the first commandment for freelancers everywhere in today's economy. Addicted to deadlines, with burnout lurking around the corner, people are working themselves to the bone. Jan Verwoert on the pleasures of exhaustion in the world of art.