‘From Dust to Dust’ is a hallucinatory echo of a larger exhibition ‘Dustcloud’, that was planned for the Old Castlemaine Gaol, and would have included sculptural, sonic, painting, video, choreographic, gestural poetry, and performance works, enfolding contributions from 11 artists from Australia, the US, and the UK. Many of the works had been developed through collaborative experimentation at the Old Castlemaine Gaol, and in London at Chelsea School of Art, which rests on the site of Millbank, a historic prison where convicts were held before being transported to Australia. The star-like architecture of these gaols was intended to control deviant citizens through surveillance, segregation, seclusion, and enforcement of silence. ‘Dustcloud’ would have inverted such sensory segregation, inviting visitors to experiment with navigating the exhibition and gaol architecture via sensory scores. ‘From Dust to Dust’ offers a sound work by blind sound artist Andy Slater, composed from field recordings in the atrium, corridors, cells, and dungeon of the Old Castlemaine Gaol, and a redescription of this sonic work through the gestural poetics of Deaf dancer Anna Seymour, filmed at another radial prison, H M Bendigo. Intertwined are resonant bell bronze sculptures by Aaron McPeake, carried from Millbank, and a rewriting performance by Will Kollmorgen, that refigures the absent exhibition as percussive myth.