The nature of the relationship between art and terror/ism and why identifications between the two are so routinely and often insistently made. It is firstly explore the possibility of there being a deep-seated structural link existing between art, terror/ism and creativity. Is terror a necessary corollary of the ‘creative event’?. Secondly, explicit examples in which artists have sought to create or to emphasise this relationship, from the perspective of Contemporary Art practices. In the spirit of experiment rather than of judgment then, this article sets up a series of trials in which art and terror/ism are philosophically, aesthetically and politically blended. It asks where else should such tests be conducted, if not in relation to the...