Art video explores 'hostile' life

The video refers to the 'hostile' world encountered by migrants

A video of a Portuguese woman who describes racial abuse in Boston is to be shown as part of an arts project in South Lincolnshire.

In the video the anonymous woman refers to people living in the town as "ignorant" and says her seven-year-old daughter has suffered racial taunts.

The video is produced by artist Jordan Baseman for the Beacon Arts Project.

Mr Baseman, 45, said: "This is one single person's story - she is very articulate and it is moving."

'Hostile world'

He said the Portuguese woman's story is about survival in a hostile world.

The woman and her daughter moved to Boston four years ago to join her husband.

The curator of the No Place Like Home project John Plowman said: "We are developing exciting ways to develop visual arts project in a rural context.

"The audience will see the video as part of a four-hour coach excursion - so it is a huge commitment and to the art they are going to encounter."

The video has not yet been shown but will included as part of the month-long project starting on 9 September.

Mr Baseman worked with Boston's migrant Portuguese workers to make a six-minute film about their sense of home and displacement.

South Lincolnshire has a large Portuguese population with many of them living in Boston.

The Beacon Art Project includes a free coach tour around a series of heritage sites in south Lincolnshire on four weekends, which have been "temporarily transformed" by the artists.

The coach will stop at the 14th Century All Saints Church in Bennington and the Grade II listed Bridge Farm in Bicker.