Comparative analysis of street art cataloguing projects in the cities of Monterrey (Mexico) and Jaen (Spain): Proposal for the inclusion of communities

In the last few months of 2020 and the first half of 2021, two urban art cataloguing projects have been carried out in two cities in different countries, making it possible to put some methodological proposals into practice that, until now, were being carried out mainly at a theoretical level. This is the project “Painted on the wall. A study of wall painting in the province of Jaén in the XX-XXI centuries’’, financed by the Instituto de Estudios Giennenses (Diputación de Jaén, Spain) and the project “The muralist creation of the CALLEGENERA Urban Expressions Festival as cultural artistic consumption” in the city of Monterrey, financed by the Mexican Programme for the Promotion of Cultural Projects and Co-investments. Methodological systems for working with and collecting information, cataloguing sheets and models for interviewing different artists have been developed in both of these projects with a common theoretical basis, such as the proposals that emerged within the GEIIC Urban and Public Art Group, and the CAPuS project and YOCOCU proposals. As such, this paper analyses both projects in terms of their methods and results, and draws conclusions about which options have worked best in terms of optimising resources for future projects. A proposal is also made to improve the urban art cataloguing sheets by including information regarding the correlation between the work and the communities surrounding it, since urban art only makes sense in its context, and some of this information is lost when the sheets are made.