Artists and writers alys longley (New Zealand) and Francisco González Castro (Chile) have been collaborating on creative-media research methodologies since 2021. Their research project Acut: The Other Side of the Limit works across performance art, creative writing, philosophy, poetics, installation, drawing and dance. Through this project they produce books, performances, scholarly writing and creative experiments. 

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The project focuses on research from a south-south perspective; it considers the geopolitical themes of specific place-based contexts as well as migration, the resistance of nationalism and the questioning of borders. Working in both Spanish and English, alys and Francisco are interested in the cross-border similarities and limits of their geographic circumstances, languages, vocabularies and creative communities.​

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In 2023, they produced an installation for the Modes of Capture Symposium (Ireland), entitled In Your Own Time: Exploring Proliferation and Difference, South to South and Beyond, in Performance Research. They have also published several articles about their creative research approach, including A Manifesto of Shambolic Form, written for Knowledge Cultures.

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alys and Francisco work together on projects and push each other to work in spaces outside the silos of their familiar disciplines. They have developed processes, experiences and experiments based on friendship, irreverence and trust. They have weekly online meetings and occasional in-person residencies in specific locations.  In 2024, their collaborative installation work was shown at Cococino Arts Centre (Arizona) in Castro's show Bodies Limits and Transgressions, in a performance of Half Built Vocab at Movement Research at the Judson Church NYC, and in a creative residency with DotDot creative studio, Brooklyn, NYC. 

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Acut: The Other Side of the Limit is supported by Creative NZ Arts Council of New Zealand Toi Aotearoa.